Technological advantages over Linux

[Victor Sudakov]

Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote:
> 
> Another PITA on Linux machines are drop directories, overriding sane
> configs, providing everything in one place.
> 
> IOW a user might rely on /etc/foo.conf , but an update despotic installs
> 
> /etc/foo.d/10-bar.conf
> 
> and
> 
> /etc/foo.d/20-bra.conf
> 
> overriding all the values chosen for bar and bra by the admin, stored
> in /etc/foo.conf .
> 
> An update never ever would replace /etc/foo.conf . On Arch Linux it
> would be stored as /etc/foo.conf.pacnew , almost all Linux distros
> provide such a solution, but the admin is screwed, if an update does
> add a file to /etc/foo.d/ .

FreeBSD has taken this path too (looking at /etc/rc.conf.d/, /etc/cron.d
and numerous others).

FreeBSD's config merging solutions (mergemaster for src updates and
freebsd-update calling sdiff) are pretty good IMHO.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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