"Chatty" config files in /etc

[Helge Oldach]

Roman Kurakin:
>I suggest to make these files the way which would encourage peoples to keep
>example part, for example, under working part. Example will be still in the
>file, it will not bother admin, cause it do not cover essential part of 
>the file,
>and will simplify merging.

So, with the benefit of easing merging for committers, we end up with
two separate files for the end users (and sysadmins) - one "example
file" and one "tru config file". IMHO this sounds like complicating
matters.

IMHO this whole problem and the discussion about it is a bit overkill.
Why not just keep it as it is? What is so fundamentally broken with the
current situation that we need important, POLA-breaking fixes?

Greetings,
Helge