From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 2 18:54:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8321037B400; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 18:54:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0061.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.61] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16XCnc-00019J-00; Sat, 02 Feb 2002 18:54:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3C5CA666.9BC2BC06@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 18:54:30 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: Wilko Bulte , Paul Fardy , current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task References: <5F46C986-16DB-11D6-8CEC-00039359034A@mac.com> <20020202110330.C16801@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3C5BCA46.713B1950@mindspring.com> <20020202145852.6781C407B@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brian T.Schellenberger" wrote: > No, it's not, because it still maintains a separation between "system" > control (rc.conf) and application control (/var/packges). > > It's more like config.sys or something . . . Oh, ya got me! Oh! Oh! Yeah... config.sys... MUCH better... 8-) 8-). ...actually, I'd point at the sendmail and natd and other programs that can be replaced, and should probably be "installer's choice", rather than being named by application name in rc.conf. You'd have a better argument if these things were named by function, rather than by program name. I think, also, that if you look at Windows XP, you'll see that the per application data has been seperated into a per application configuration space, to keep it from breaking anything. That's more like a ".Xdefaults". I guess NIH beats an idea to death, even if the original implementation bears no resemblence to the current one. 8-p -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message