Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 21:26:22 +0000 From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pcnfsd.. Message-ID: <199512282126.VAA01984@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Dec 27, 11:08pm
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> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> > Date: Wed 27 Dec, 1995 > Subject: Re: pcnfsd.. > Sigh. It's really annoying that we can't just bundle gated. This might be handled as a special "would-be-in-the-base-system-if-we-could- do-it" package class, rather than a straight "port". Include all the hooks and configuration knobs for it, with the instructions for obtaining and installing it supplied with the base system. (Note: this class of package probably shouldn't touch /usr/local by default; ideally, as "almost" part of the base system, it shouldn't require the administrator to subscribe to the "ports" way of doing things.) > And what do you say about pcnfsd, which perturbs the starting of > mountd? Should we bring it in and keep our exposure down to one > port? I like the way you have it now, with a (sort of) general-purpose knob in sysconfig to tweak the behaviour of the base system. Add-on packages might be taught to know about such knobs, and either instruct the administrator to turn it on, or offer to turn it on for him. Mark.home | help
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