From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 15 23:33:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15459 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 23:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15453; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 23:33:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA98824; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 23:32:43 -0800 (PST) To: Brian Somers cc: Eivind Eklund , "Joseph T. Lee" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gratuitous name changes (was: libalias and ident) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Jan 1999 08:59:51 GMT." <199901140859.IAA44254@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 23:32:43 -0800 Message-ID: <98821.916471963@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If libalias changes to libnat, I'd prefer to just change the ppp flag > to -nat, update the ppp version to 2.1 and update You would change it, and you'd only document -nat, but you'd still preserve -alias as a synonym for it (for at least a year or so) because otherwise: > But this isn't necessarily a good idea as it may attract a pile of > ``why the hell did you break my configuration for no good reason'' > messages. That will happen. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message