From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 18 10:54:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from 12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB28137B40F; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:54:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from master.gorean.org (master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5IHsWBu021635; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:54:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by master.gorean.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id g5IHsW75001815; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:54:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:54:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Trish Lynch Cc: Nik Clayton , Subject: Re: 4.x compatibilty.. Was: MFC of rcNG? In-Reply-To: <20020618090225.Y464-100000@femme.listmistress.org> Message-ID: <20020618105115.A1723-100000@master.gorean.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Trish Lynch wrote: > for what its worth, I agree with this rather than the "2.2+rc is going > away as soon as 5.0 comes out" > > People may have changes to the original rc system that they were using > that they would be given time to migrate if we used rcng as the default in > 5.0 but were able to use the old one as well First, anyone smart enough to make modifications to their /etc/rc* scripts is probably smart enough to hack them into the rcNG framework with a minimum of fuss. It's not really THAT much different internally. Second, it's exactly for situations like this that I think we SHOULD make a clean break at 5.0. There are already enough clean breaks to be made other places, this is very likely to be one of the least of them. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message