> 
>    there's no way to tell what's safe, and what's not, therefore
>    it's best to just leave it out.
> 
> That's not quite true.
> 
> One approach would be to install two copies of the config files... one
> in "/etc" and another in (say) "/etc/.stock".  If /etc/foo and

For most people /etc/* does not change more than once each release
version.  The problems you are running into are directly the effect of
following current.  Any change made between releases can and should be
easily handled by sysadmin.

Chris.

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