Technological advantages over Linux

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 13:49:11 +0700
Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:

> Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote:
> > 
> > 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 has used this approach to carefully separate default
configuration from user provided configuration - the directories are
generally for sysadmins the files for the distribution.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>