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Date:      Fri, 22 Dec 1995 10:24:27 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, andreas@knobel.gun.de, graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: pcnfsd..
Message-ID:  <199512221024.KAA13494@cadair.elsevier.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199512220806.AAA06934@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Dec 22, 95 00:06:01 am

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In reply to Satoshi Asami who said
> 
> And the X ports have no clue where the heck that tree is.
> 

That's not important in this case. As long as the package knows to
install a startup file in the ports_startup_file directory and there's
a hook in sysconfig to go look in this directory, there can be a script
in that directory for the X package that'll start it and known anything
that needs to be known about it. All we're saying, for example is the
line in /etc/rc that starts apache should become a startup script say
/usr/local/etc/ports/startup/apache, or something better named :-) And that
instead of lots of special case lines for each port in /etc/rc or
sysconfig you have one hook that trawls through that directory running
startup scripts.

None of the other ports know where the heck that tree is either.

I think you're mixing up the idea of config files and startup files, X config
files will still end up in the X tree which is something we should be a bit
more forcefull about with the X folks because it's a badly broken concept.

-- 
  Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd.
  Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk
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