Re: beating mergemaster to /etc/rc.d

On 2004-10-13 10:32, Randy Bush <randy_at_psg.com> wrote:
> >>   INSTALL_ETCRC=false   # default not to just stomp in new /etc/rc.d/*
> > Err, no.  Why would you need that?
>
> so i can edit it to 'true' if my /etc/rc.d is not hacked

FWIW,

There was a long discussion about this in one of the lists a few days
ago.  A lot of opinions were exchanged, and some of the suggestions were
actually very good.  You might want to check out the archives of the
cvs-all mailing list for that.  See the thread with a subject of:

        What we keep under /etc (was: cvs commit: src/etc rc [...]

One of the alternatives was to install the sysutils/etcmerge port which,
according to its author, works better than mergemaster in cases like
this -- without modifications to the src/etc source tree or extra hacks
in `make.conf'.

- Giorgos