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From: Volker Stolz <stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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In gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports, you wrote:
> - define RC_FILES, which contain a list of all the files to be
>   stored in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. This file may contain macros like
>   %%LOCALBASE%% and %%RC_SUBR%%.

Excellent! While we discussed this at the ports BOF at EuroBSDCon, it
was suggested to have a knob for deciding whether to run 
"${RC_SCRIPT} restart" on updating a port -- it has to be configurable
since the administrator might want fine-grained control. Any chance of
adding this as sugar on top?

Cheers,
  Volker
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