What we keep under /etc (was: cvs commit: src/etc rc rc.shutdown src/etc/rc.d ...)

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:20:51PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Brooks Davis, and lo! it spake thus:
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 01:15:53AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > 
> > This makes life painful enough to ask....
> 
> As long as you don't actually modify the scripts you can just do an
> "rm /etc/rc.d/*" and run mergemaster with -i.  It's a whole lot less
> painful that way.

I often manually 'make install' in some parts of src/etc/ (periodic
comes to mind) with lots of files that I don't mess with, just to cut
back on the noise in mergemaster.


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