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Date:      Mon, 18 May 1998 11:20:04 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: system config database... 
Message-ID:  <28331.895515604@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 May 1998 14:09:29 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518140136.22495F-100000@fnur.3skel.com> 

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> in a configuration. There are a few things that are
> too arbitrary, mostly cleanup stuff like ptmp, and vi -r.
> Those things seem better in their own scripts, no?

No. :)

If you're going to offer one-stop shopping then you need to just toss
an umbrella over it all.  The proliferation of little scripts which
"just don't quite fit" into the overall framework is what makes
debugging a system startup failure such a bear on the more complex
rc.d-using systems and what we want to avoid.  You want to think of
the entire startup process, from init's first gasp to the very last
"rc.local" type of action, as a single system with a decent API for
adding, deleting and editing the objects it manages.

Anything less ambitious just isn't worth accepting all the transition
shock hassles for, IMHO, and that's speaking as someone who's
inflicted fairly major transition shock on the user base not just once
but _twice_ (/etc/sysconfig followed by /etc/rc.conf) for what, in
hindsight, wasn't that much of a gain.  If I had it to do over, I'd
have either just left the pre-sysconfig mechnanisms completely alone
or gone for broke and fixed it once and for all in a far more elegant
fashion.

- Jordan

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