On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> This assumption isn't actually correct for all of the variables listed
> in mk/defaults/mk.conf, although I do see benefit in this.  If there
> are any package-settable variables in mk/defaults/mk.conf, I think
> they should be moved into separate file, perhaps mk/defaults/pkg-vars.mk
> that's automatically included by bsd.prefs.mk.  This would make it
> easier for a user to copy mk/defaults/mk.conf to /etc/mk.conf and edit
> away without breaking packages.

*g* wasn't it suggested recently to split those variables into 
per-user/system and per-package defaults? Maybe that's not so bad after 
all...

(While there: May I suggest just moving the contents of packages.7 back 
while there, and shoot that manpage from NetBSD?)


  - Hubert