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Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

> Isn't that *exactly why* ports should respect $PREFIX? At least than you know 
> that startup scripts are in one place. Maybe all that is needed is a variable 
> RCDIR?= etc/rc.d, for people who want to 'deviate' from this convention.

I like that idea.  That could work.  But to make this seemless (in the 
case of RCDIR=/etc/rc.d), we would need to start adding the RCNG 
keywords to the startup scripts added by ports.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman@mindspring.com