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From: "Daniel Blankensteiner" <db@traceroute.dk>
To: "Gordon Tetlow" <gordon@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD daemon configurations redesign
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 01:34:18 +0200
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Tetlow" <gordon@FreeBSD.org>
> The problem with this is that the past 15 years of software doesn't
work
> this way. It would take a fair amount of legwork to go through and
hammer
> everything into this mold that would be FreeBSD-specific. I think it
would
> be *very* difficult to get buy-in from all the projets out there that
we
> might potentially use. It's a lot of work already keeping the
> contrib'ified sources in sync with the vendors, now imagine
customizing
> everything so it was in /etc/daemons/*
>
> It's a lot of work to do what you propose.

Ok, the idea was good and it can't be done. Some of the things I was
talking about can't be done whitout this "new system", but some of the
things we can make by faking central control.
If you think this is a good idea, then I will be glad (very glad) to
help out, anyway I can.

br
db


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