On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 11:04:10PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Theo, > > you have a point, that was a lot of cheap talk and no patch. > > I don't aim at changing yacc(1) grammars. I think most parts of > OpenBSD configuration systems already have sane defaults and most > configuration syntaxes are already good with respect to simplicity > and usability. At least "most", maybe even all. > > > The example files were moved from /etc, so that /etc contained fewer > > files for unconfigured software. > > That was a very good step, and it was also good to not encumber it > by trying to do more at the same time. > > > Little to no effort was put into curating them. That's the gap that > > occured. > > So, here i'm putting a few pennies where my mouth is, starting from the > shortest file in /etc/examples/. The example is so short that cut and > paste from the manual page will certainly cause no trouble, and the > file also isn't a special case with respect to permissions, > it is -rw-r--r-- root:wheel. > > OK? > Ingo > > > P.S. > When preparing this, i noticed i already had the change to > mixerctl.conf.5 in my tree. It looks like i started it > in the past, then forgot about it. > > P.P.S. > Note that i will not propose to get rid of *all* of /etc/examples/, > but just of trivial examples that provide no benefit by being outside > the manual page. There are certainly some that make sense as they > are.
I agree that the mixerctl.conf is pointless. Furthermore not all devices have an outputs.master knob (ex. envy(4) and uaudio(4) don't), so the example is wrong in certain cases. thanks for looking at this ok ratchov
