From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 25 21:49:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA11238 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 21:49:55 -0700 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA11233 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 21:49:52 -0700 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA19769 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Mon, 25 Sep 1995 23:47:46 -0500 Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA28684 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 23:43:20 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199509260443.XAA28684@bonkers.taronga.com> Subject: Re: ports startup scripts To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 23:43:19 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <199509252152.RAA13441@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 25, 95 05:52:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 918 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > --- NO SCRIPT EDITING !!! ---- > We are not talking about script editing. We are talking about adding > a line to a control file, versus adding a line to a directory. That *is* script editing. > If you want SysV, use Linux. I want the best system I can. I don't care if you call it System V or BSD or Linux or NT. Just give me as solid and clean an underpinning for the system (and the UNIX model is the best of that I know), and the best tools on top of that. > If you want FreeBSD to get some new > flexibility (based upon concepts from anywhere else) - GREAT. > But don't say "SysV is doing it so we should"! NOBODY is saying that. What they're saying is "it's working in System V, so don't just dismiss it". There's lots of stuff in System V that doesn't work (lp, for example :-P), and we can learn from that too. But if you want something that's *really* a hybrid, see the message I sent to Terry...