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On 02/05/2012 03:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> You cannot trust the commented examples in rc.conf to be the defaults. |
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> I reckon they are just that - typical examples. |
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> If you search through rc.conf for the word "default" you find quite a |
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> few cases where the text says what the default is and the example is |
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> something different. In other words, the default is, um, not actually |
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> documented anywhere. |
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> This is a bit of a fail actually as you now have to fiddle with |
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> settings, make them this, reboot, make them that, reboot, see what the |
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> difference is. Sloppy maintenance if you ask me. |
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> I'd advise you to file a bug (feature request) asking for the defaults |
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> to be clearly documented where someone other than the principle dev can |
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> find them. |
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You guys already did this thread: |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_513fd0fbcdf0fc95f5561684e80301f8.xml |
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