From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 21 13:17:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from 12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AE837B40C; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from master.gorean.org (master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5LKHCBu031950; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:17:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by master.gorean.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id g5LKHCFQ014515; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:17:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:17:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Terry Lambert Cc: Gordon Tetlow , Subject: Re: MFC of src/etc/rc.subr In-Reply-To: <3D129B66.A4B8D2F3@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020621125052.E14420-100000@master.gorean.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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 There is no "just the ports part." /etc/rc.subr is the hingepin for the entire netbsd rc system. Any changes we might make in -current would then have to be pushed down. My concern is that if we do encourage people to start adopting this style for ports, we should know what the style is first. > 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. Yes, and look what a spectacular success that was... -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message