Re: [gentoo-desktop] udev, fstab, and fsck at boot.

[Tim Weber]

On Friday 19 November 2004 05:33, Drake Wyrm wrote:
> At 2004-11-18T09:03:58-0500, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > A better solution is (as always, in my opinion with system-affecting
> > files such as this) to instead provide a fstab.example, or not to
> > provide an fstab via portage, at all.
>
> I rather have to disagree. *.example files and other
> documentation-related goodies in my /etc directory annoy me, but a
> well-commented config file with some reasonable defaults is a dream to
> work with.

I agree absolutely.  I was a bit disappointed when it happened to make.conf;  
because I really liked, for example, the list of allowed -march settings.  
And I think that you will scare users (especially the genkernel type) if you 
let them write their fstab completely by hand.

Of course, they wouldn't really need to write it by themselves, because they'd 
have some .example files.  But I strongly dislike the idea of putting them 
inside /etc.

     Tim.

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