From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 17 22:03:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA22003 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 22:03:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lorax.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21998 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 22:03:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by lorax.ubergeeks.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA01575; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:02:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:02:24 -0500 (EST) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Garance A Drosihn cc: Jacques Vidrine , Nik Clayton , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > I don't see a lot of users upgrading to FreeBSD 3.0.1 or what have > > you and being pleased that they now are lost because of a gratuitous > > change. > > What changes are average (*) users going to be "lost" in? Right, it is immaterial to the average user. The people who would suffer the most from such a change would be the people who do know the system like the back of their hand. > but the ones you've presented are not very convincing to me. It > wouldn't surprise me if this topic has been debated before, and > if there are some other more convincing reasons not to do it, It has. There are. Search the mail archives. It comes up every year or so. And every year it gets plowed under. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message