Re: recommended behaviour for "example" configuration files

From: Philip Hallstrom (freebsd_at_philip.pjkh.com)
Date: 06/30/05

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To: Jaroslav Kucher <freebsd@blues.kiev.ua>

    > Kindly advice what is recommended actions for the "example"
    > configuration files after the port application install.
    >
    > From the point of package database the removing or moving those files
    > will cause database inconsistency.
    >
    > From the point of administrator to have a lot of useless files in
    > configuration directories is unwanted .
    >
    > Example: after installations of amavis-new port there was 3 sample
    > files in /usr/local/etc/ directory:
    >
    > *amavisd.conf-default
    > *amavisd.conf-dist
    > *amavisd.conf-sample

    I tend to leave them there unless it's an application I'm really familiar
    with as I find the samples tend to have pretty good comments and I might
    want to go back and look at them.

    I agree though, they do get in the way at times, but when I have removed
    them, I don't remember pkg_delete every complaining about it... maybe a
    warning that it couldn't find the file (which might be a problem if you
    for other pkg_* commands)...

    -philip
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