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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
> Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >(1) /etc/rc.d

> > - Ports shouldn't touch anything in the root filesystem
> > + Central location, easy to maintain
> > + Per-machine configuration possible even if /usr/local is NFS shared
>   + Complete system configuration backed up by tarring /etc.

> Though for that last, /var/db/pkg, /var/at/jobs, and /var/cron/tabs should
> also be in /etc.
> aside: /var/db/pkg and so on are a problem. Just about everything else
> in /var can safely be considered "volatile", you don't lose system

Crontab entries, yes. Package data, I could go either way with.
Aren't "at" jobs single shot, therefore volotile?

>  - Other ports configuration scripts are in /usr/local/{etc,lib}
>
> >(2) /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> This is a problem anyway, since there are other per-machine config files
> in /usr/local.

That's part of the complaint. They shouldn't be.

> I like /etc/rc.d for all sorts of reasons that you've all already seen.

Agreed, but if we go with run levels "/etc/rc.#/..."

-coranth

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