Subject: Re: tmp in mfs and swap
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@niagara.nectar.cs.cmu.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/07/1996 00:25:51
>
> >Yet more reasons that a bunch of this configuration information should
> >be in /etc, per CGD's recent suggestion. I find myself constantly
> >re-editing the contents of share/mk to customize such things (these
> >changes get blown away by my "make build"s) and I wonder how well this
> >would work at all in an NFS environment. You should be able to set
> >all this stuff in /etc, along with all the other host specific data.
>
> I have root use
> setenv KERBEROS
> which is the same thing as adding
> KERBEROS= yes
> to bsd.own.mk, for example. Is this better than a file in /etc?
No, it's much worse:
(1) you get different build results depending on who
you build as, perhaps w/o intending to. (the solution
i sent in as a pr allows you to, but you have to ask for it.)
(2) N configuration options -> N environment variables, which
are hard to document, etc.
chris