"Chatty" config files in /etc

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:09, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> At 8:48 AM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote:
> >On Thursday 31 August 2006 06:18, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> >>  On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:00:04 +0400
> >  > Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >>
> >  > > No, /etc/defaults are different beasties -- they are true
> >>  > default config files -- they are either used if there's no
> >>  > corresponding version under /etc, or most likely sourced
> >>  > to provide defaults.  To be moved to /etc/defaults, a file
> >>  > should gain the same property.
> >>
> >>  While this comment is blatently obvious: /etc/examples
> >
> >This is already spelled /usr/share/examples/etc in FreeBSD.
> 
> Actually, as it stands right now that is not quite the same
> thing.  Right now /usr/share/examples/etc holds *exact copies*
> of the files we install in /etc, for the reasons as described
> in /usr/share/examples/etc/README.examples :

I was thinking of /usr/share/examples/ppp (I thought it had
been under /usr/share/examples/etc/ppp).  Having
/usr/share/examples/etc in its current form really isn't all
that useful as for one thing it has rotted a bunch.  I think
instead that we should repurpose it for expanded versions of
files.  The current format of /etc/printcap should be an example
file for example (it fits with /usr/share/examples/ppp style)
and I think we shouldn't even have an /etc/printcap installed
by default.  Same with /etc/hosts.allow.

-- 
John Baldwin