From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 18 21:44:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9600216A401 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:44:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 168FB43D55 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:44:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 17771 invoked by uid 399); 18 Apr 2006 21:44:29 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Apr 2006 21:44:29 -0000 Message-ID: <44455DC2.9080504@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:44:34 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <444515C8.3030406@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <444515C8.3030406@centtech.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:44:30 -0000 While I personally am not necessarily opposed to this kind of patch, you should be aware that this idea has been proposed in the past, and roundly rejected. The consensus has been that we don't necessarily want FreeBSD to look like other OSes that do this. That said, when you have something that you're ready for a wider review on, please submit it first to freebsd-rc@, then freebsd-arch@. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection