Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > As it is, there are other problems which need to be addressed regardless > of the outcome of the discussion: > > - the upgrade process currently makes some edits to the > "skel" and /etc/* files > > this mechanism does not seem to be suited to the wholesale set > of changes proposed here (also because any changes by the > administrator to the files to revert the new defaults may be > then later undone) > > Options: > Punt > (edit only those things which are actual bugs and don't bother > ever updating the files after a system is installed) > > Overwrite > (copy the new file in place, regardless of the old content) > Down in the noise, but couldn't approved changes just be put at the beginning of the file and any pre-existing and now subsequent changes will take precedence?
- jek3
