:But it doesn't the fix the problem of default config files which might
:be changed [or _are_ normally changed by the user]. Implementing
:merging seems even more a hack than this "overkill". A lot of admins
:use CVS or so to manage config files, which is even more overkill.
:
:Joerg
The files in /etc/defaults are not supposed to be modified by anyone.
You are only supposed to override them with files in /etc. The whole
idea of /etc/defaults is that the sysad does NOT modify those files,
therefore we can overwrite them with a system upgrade.
If we implement the same override mechanism for things like /etc/services,
everything should work just fine. We modify the files in /etc/defaults,
and the sysad modifies the files in /etc. No conflict.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>