On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:51:03 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > The approach paludis uses just seems simpler all-around, minus the > fact that it doesn't provide defaults for internals that need not be > exposed (vdb and such - which admittedly aren't needed by exherbo). I've not heard people ask for defaults like that before. Most people, when configuring, get these files created automatically for them anyway, and they're useful to have around so you know what to tweak. *shrug* It would be trivial to do a per-distribution default config that gets overridden. -- Ciaran McCreesh