Commit logs for 2014/04/11

[David Chisnall]

On 20 Apr 2014, at 17:05, Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:

> Wait, hold on... if the purpose of @sample is to automatically create real.conf files and delete them when appropriate, without end-user intervention, then end-users should never be interacting with .sample files in the first place.

The user may still want to refer to the .sample file so that they can see what the defaults are, whether anything has changed, and so on.

> The goal shouldn't be properly-named .sample files, it should be never clobbering conf files and ensuring that end-users never have to copy sample files themselves. @sample should strive to always be MORE permissive, not LESS!

Integrating something like etcupdate that did a three-way merge with pkg would indeed be very nice...

David