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Date:      Thu, 21 Dec 1995 15:20:19 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de>, Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pcnfsd.. 
Message-ID:  <199512212220.PAA04267@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <29652.819581550@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951221072044.336C-100000@knobel.gun.de> <29652.819581550@time.cdrom.com>

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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.

...

> 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.

Yay!  We've come to an agreement.  It *must* be the holidays or
something.


Nate



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