From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 20 20:20:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0594437B40E; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0544.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.34] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17LEyf-0000K3-00; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:20:50 -0700 Message-ID: <3D129B66.A4B8D2F3@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:20:06 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: Doug Barton , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MFC of src/etc/rc.subr References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > My concern is that people will start writing scripts that use these > > interfaces, then we're going to change them. However, if no one else > > objects, I suppose it's ok.... > > Actually, I think this is a good reason. I'm going to think on it some > more. I have some ideas I need to flesh out and probably talk with lukem > about. Not MFC'ing just the ports part (which is all we are talking about here -- personally, I'd like the whole thing in 4.7) will *guarantee* that there will be ports written for 5.x that will not work for 4.7 because they rely upon the new rc system for startup and shutdown. Personally, I don't care if the code is buggy, if it's off by default. Remember that devfs was MFC'ed under the same constraints, so there is precedent. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message