Em 12-02-2014 07:48, Ingo Schwarze escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> Giancarlo Razzolini wrote on Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 03:18:39PM -0200:
>
>> The main issue here is, that, the human brain, although being this
>> wonderful machine, makes a lot of assumptions to fill in the gaps, even
>> when there are *no *gaps to be filled. I don't know if the documentation
>> needs to be clearer in this specific case.
> Even though the misunderstanding does not seem to occur often,
> it does seem somewhat unsurprising because a lot of other software
> encourages the (imho questionable) practice of copying example
> configuration files.
>
> So here is what i came up with to make this clearer without
> making it longer or more redundant.
>
> OK?
> Ingo
>
>
> Index: rc.conf.8
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man8/rc.conf.8,v
> retrieving revision 1.20
> diff -u -r1.20 rc.conf.8
> --- rc.conf.8 17 Mar 2012 14:46:40 -0000 1.20
> +++ rc.conf.8 12 Feb 2014 09:40:09 -0000
> @@ -49,9 +49,9 @@
> .Nm rc.conf
> untouched, and instead create and edit a new
> .Nm rc.conf.local
> -file.
> -Variables set in this file will override variables previously set in
> -.Nm rc.conf .
> +file, setting just those variables whose
> +.Nm rc.conf
> +default values are intended to be overridden.
> .Pp
> Some variables are used to turn features on or off.
> For example, whether the system runs the
HI Ingo,
I've sent a patch on tech@, and there was a discussion about it, but
there wasn't a consensus. I encourage you to join tech and the
discussion. Send your proposal there too.
Cheers,
--
Giancarlo Razzolini
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