Re: [gentoo-user] Default settings in /etc/rc.conf

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Tanstaafl wrote:
> Can someone please confirm that the commented settings in /etc/rc.conf
> are the defaults?
> 
> Ie, when running etc-update after updating openrc, I had specifically
> the entry:
> 
> rc_parallel="NO"
> 
> Now, when updating from 0.9.4 to 0.9.8.4, it wants to completely remove
> this setting and all related comments to it.
> 
> I always hate it when the header comments for config files -
> *especially* important ones like rc.conf - do not *explicitly* state
> what the *defaults*are, and/or that the *commented* settings *are* the
> defaults.
> 
> So, is
> 
> rc_parallel="NO"
> 
> the default or not?
> 
> What about
> 
> #rc_interactive="YES"
> 
> Ie, if I leave it commented like that, is it set to YES or NO?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charles
> 
> 


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.  If it makes your system
break tho, you get to keep all the pieces and complain to the mirror.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)

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