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Date:      Thu, 7 Jun 2018 07:29:58 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        rgrimes@FreeBSD.org, src-committers <src-committers@FreeBSD.org>, Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc
Message-ID:  <20180607072958.GA51308@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 01:02:25PM -0600, Brad Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > ...
> > So each installworld would wipe over the top of any localmod /etc/rc.d/
> > and other stuff that mght exist?
> > One of the reasons that etc/Makefile is detached from Installword is so
> > that /etc does not get perturbuted unless specifically requested.
> 
> Yes, this is by design.
> 
> If people need custom tweaks for that stuff they should be upstreamed or
> moved into /usr/local/etc/rc.d as a custom startup script.

This is rather questionable design to me.  I don't consider my scripts
as binaries and like them in /etc/rc.d/ and managed via mergemaster -Fi.
Everything was perfectly fine with it.  What exactly the problem you're
trying to solve here?

./danfe



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