Re: cvs commit: src/etc/dma Makefile

[Johannes Hofmann <Johannes.Hofmann@xxxxxx>]

Matthias Schmidt <matthias@dragonflybsd.org> wrote:
> 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.

I like the simple /etc/defaults/ mechanism a lot. It works and is easy to
understand. Why do you think more files in /etc/defaults/ would create a mess? 
I'd say it's much cleaner than any automated config file merging.

Regards,
Johannes