From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 22 04:13:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA22422 for current-outgoing; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 04:13:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA22415 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 04:13:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA02792; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 04:08:05 -0800 To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) cc: andreas@knobel.gun.de, graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pcnfsd.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 22 Dec 1995 00:06:01 PST." <199512220806.AAA06934@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 04:08:05 -0800 Message-ID: <2783.819634085@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > And the X ports have no clue where the heck that tree is. > > C'mon Jordan, we've been through this before. SysV allergies aside, > there are reasons why none of the ideas were implemented. Well, there are ways around that, certainly. Consider for a moment the fact that nobody seemed to be all that keen to continue extending sysconfig or the other /etc files, either, and we're quickly running out of possible options to *debate* here! It's not like there are that many different approaches available to us - either we code implicit knowledge of our ports tree into our system startup files (current approach) or we enhance the "rendevous" mechanism enough that we don't have to. Are the X ports your only concern? We could take Paul's suggestion and enhance it a little bit, e.g. rather than being a directory it could now be a list of directories: local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d OK? Jordan