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Re: cvs commit: src/etc/dma Makefile


From: Matthias Schmidt <matthias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:35:16 +0100

Hi,

* Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Use the defaults mechanism.  /etc/<blah> overriides /etc/defaults/<blah>.
>     /etc/defaults/<blah> is owned by the build system, /etc/<blah> is owned
>     by the user.

This is fine for system config files containing a lot of entries.  If we
start to introduce this for every daemon/$whatever we end up with a
mess of default files.  I agree with Simon and would vote for a more
sophisticated solution which involves merging the differences or
something similar to that.

Regards

	Matthias



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