Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:20:33 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d early.sh Message-ID: <86odf615j2.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710101744420.8687@qbhto.arg> (Doug Barton's message of "Wed\, 10 Oct 2007 18\:13\:36 -0700 \(PDT\)") References: <200710090730.l997UEEF042804@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071010002930.GA91077@dragon.NUXI.org> <20071010183542.GA58383@hub.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710101744420.8687@qbhto.arg>
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Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > I'm not opposed to that idea (in fact I seriously considered it) but > the reason I didn't do it is that I don't have a good sense of why we > need it. Once again as Mike pointed out, the reason that it was there, > and the reason it was .sh was specifically to do what we're now trying > to avoid, since whatever benefits there may have been don't outweigh > the risks. So you remove functionality that others depend on simply because you don't understand it and / or don't need it yourself? This is FreeBSD, not DougBSD. You didn't even bother to ask on freebsd-rc. > I was unaware of the use of this script suggested in gmirror(8) until > Dmitry pointed it out to me, and that usage should really be converted > to a proper rc.d script. It's not the kind of thing that lends itself well to being formalized in that manner. This is precisely why we have rc.early and rc.local: so people who have special (perhaps one-off) needs can do special (perhaps one-off) things without jumping through too many hoops. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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