Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 13:32:30 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> Cc: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcnfsd.. Message-ID: <29652.819581550@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Dec 1995 07:26:00 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951221072044.336C-100000@knobel.gun.de>
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> I'd say yes to integrate this service, because it's a basic > connectivity service. In this case a very small package, that > doesn't cost many K's in the source tree. Actually, I have a confession to make. Ahem. This is very difficult. I have come to (ooph, ack) agree with Paul! I think that the ${local_startup} trick has potential and it should be the package that drops its startup glue there. sysinstall should just do a pkg_add on pcnfsd and expect the right side-effects to happen (likewise with pkg_delete - you'd want to remove the initialization!). Of course, version-smash will still be a constant headache to be lived with, but I expect that the packagers will simply have to sort that out for themselves as they go along. I think the package specific junk should come out of sysconfig and the other associated files in /etc. The current approach is simply a bad idea and I'm sorry that I ever defended it. It's a great mechanism for configuring the *base system* behavior, but no more than that. The local config stuff is fat. I'll go turn over the appropriate files in -current with a stick. Jordan
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