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authorKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2013-09-12 04:00:24 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2013-09-12 04:01:20 +0200
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man: fix description of file order application
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configuration files installed by vendor packages. All
configuration files are sorted by their filename in
alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
- directories they reside, to guarantee that a specific
- configuration file takes precedence over another file
- with an alphabetically earlier name, if both files
- contain the same variable setting.</para>
+ directories they reside. If multiple files specify the
+ same variable name, the entry in the file with the
+ alphabetically latest name will be applied. It is
+ recommended to prefix all filenames with a two-digit
+ number and a dash, to simplify the ordering of the
+ files.</para>
<para>If the administrator wants to disable a
configuration file supplied by the vendor, the