I _think_ the original post was more along the lines of being able to
selectively disable _installing_ new versions of things.

For example, pgpsendmail is installed in place of the "real" sendmail, and
the real sendmail is renamed to something like sendmail.real.  But if I do
a make install in src/usr.sbin, it puts a new copy of sendmail on top of
pgpsendmail.  If I don't remember to fix things up and install a new copy
of pgpsendmail, I'm hosed...

On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Phil Nelson wrote:

> 
> >Perhaps we need a local configuration file for things of this nature.
> >I'm thinking that there must be other things that people like to
> >replace with other versions.  Something like:
> >
> >sendmail no
> 
> I believe that this is already in place in /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> Excerpt from a -current /etc/conf
> 
> ># `NO' disables a toggle or a program with flags.
> ># `YES' enables a toggle.
> ># `DEFAULT' enables a program with the default flags (as listed).
> ># Any other string is used as a set of flags.
> >...
> >sendmail_flags=NO               # default: "-bd -q30m"
> 
> 
> -- 
> Phil Nelson                    NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org
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