From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Default settings in /etc/rc.conf
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 22:01:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120205220125.2a0c25b8@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F2ECF50.3020601@libertytrek.org>
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:49:52 -0500
Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
> On 2012-02-05 1:41 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> > They removed the setting because it broke a good bit of systems.
> > No one wanted to fix it, so they got rid of it. From my
> > understanding, if you still want the setting, you can leave it
> > there.
>
> Yeah, I fugured out that much, but my main question was about the
> defaults...
>
> What *are* the defaults? Is the example setting that is commented out
> the default?
>
You cannot trust the commented examples in rc.conf to be the defaults.
I reckon they are just that - typical examples.
If you search through rc.conf for the word "default" you find quite a
few cases where the text says what the default is and the example is
something different. In other words, the default is, um, not actually
documented anywhere.
This is a bit of a fail actually as you now have to fiddle with
settings, make them this, reboot, make them that, reboot, see what the
difference is. Sloppy maintenance if you ask me.
I'd advise you to file a bug (feature request) asking for the defaults
to be clearly documented where someone other than the principle dev can
find them.
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-05 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-05 17:25 [gentoo-user] Default settings in /etc/rc.conf Tanstaafl
2012-02-05 18:41 ` Dale
2012-02-05 18:49 ` Tanstaafl
2012-02-05 19:00 ` Dale
2012-02-05 19:56 ` Tanstaafl
2012-02-05 20:01 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-02-06 5:10 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-02-06 9:42 ` Mick
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