> 
> >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