From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RuGro-0003NL-L5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:11:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52C48E0593; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 05:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.viabit.com (mail2.viabit.com [65.246.80.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE1C0E055E for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 05:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.17.29.6] (unknown [65.213.236.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.viabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 93E5537AD7 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:10:47 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=orlitzky.com; s=mail2; t=1328505047; bh=sipyWAsBjTk85R3um1KWBkBVX16qgFlaqTgKx084tU8=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=qnpfFLth9KA3bI1mUE7dzcXXqcS5WX0afvEJVIG4cyZCCQs0RKNSF0a/rpuZ2vlj/ 037mPF4NikA85f9NTo+kr97a8ioPA0NJDhz96EuY6+SrLmjpM3loCtuJdpZdoFsekH ywAhn9+KybqvMB4/yd9KE47KZUxyT5jp7uWFT418= Message-ID: <4F2F60D5.7090002@orlitzky.com> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:10:45 -0500 From: Michael Orlitzky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120121 Thunderbird/9.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Default settings in /etc/rc.conf References: <4F2EBB6E.6040301@libertytrek.org> <4F2ECD72.7070809@gmail.com> <4F2ECF50.3020601@libertytrek.org> <20120205220125.2a0c25b8@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120205220125.2a0c25b8@khamul.example.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 99571665-aa6d-4e41-8204-74dc9f666545 X-Archives-Hash: 80f6607a9a1ac1b2156baf00765d11ea On 02/05/2012 03:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 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. > You guys already did this thread: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_513fd0fbcdf0fc95f5561684e80301f8.xml