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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
> Unless /etc is read-only and the only method you have to add your own
> stuff is union mounts (additional directory entries).

In which case, you've set up a very unique configuration, where
you cannot change "motd", cannot edit password files, change mail
aliases, add new hosts to DNS, ...

These types of changes are at least as common, if not a lot more so,
than adding packages.

-coranth

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