From owner-freebsd-commit Mon Sep 18 08:31:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-commit Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA19962 for freebsd-commit-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:31:55 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA19946 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:31:51 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA19935 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:31:49 -0700 Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA19899 ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:31:23 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA15420; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:31:14 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199509181531.QAA15420@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:31:13 +0100 (BST) Cc: paul@FreeBSD.org, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <6941.811437082@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Sep 18, 95 08:11:22 am Reply-to: paul@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1064 Sender: owner-commit@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said > > > Seriously, what I'd suggest is that a knob be added to /etc/sysconfig > > such as > > > > packages_startup= /usr/local/etc > You mean: > packages_startup= /usr/local/etc/rc.d Or even packages_startup= /etc/rc.local.d the point is, the sysadmin has control over local configuration issues. If packages aren't used at all then there's no extra baggage. > > Yes indeed, good thinking, but can we not have both then ? Umm, seems a bit silly that! In any case, I'm against what Jordan has implemented since I've got no way to stop it working that way as a local admin. This is only part of the change, the package installation code now has to be modified to register packages in that area and with Jordan's proposal that would be a hard wired path that would be very hard to change at a future date and a nightmare to change for a different local configuration. -- Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)