From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 24 11:27:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA20E16A4CE for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:27:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.netcologne.de (smtp1.netcologne.de [194.8.194.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FEB43D48 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:27:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmseck-lists@netcologne.de) Received: from laurel.tmseck.homedns.org (xdsl-213-196-228-160.netcologne.de [213.196.228.160]) by smtp1.netcologne.de (Postfix) with SMTP id A1FEA38A70 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:27:39 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 1187 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Feb 2004 19:27:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:27:15 +0100 From: Thomas-Martin Seck To: Brooks Davis Message-ID: <20040224192715.GA717@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> References: <20040223120917.608.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <4039F58C.1020004@fillmore-labs.com> <20040223132524.GA520@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <20040223203840.GE20557@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040223203840.GE20557@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: private site in Germany X-PGP-KeyID: DF46EE05 X-PGP-Fingerprint: A38F AE66 6B11 6EB9 5D1A B67D 2444 2FE1 DF46 EE05 X-Attribution: tms cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OPTIONS, LATEST_LINK, and RCng X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:27:43 -0000 * Brooks Davis (brooks@one-eyed-alien.net): > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:25:24PM +0100, Thomas-Martin Seck wrote: > > www/squid respects rcNG but does not enforce its use on non-rcNG > > systems. I do not know why this is such a problem for you. I would > > really like you to stop doing advocacy on this right now and instead ask > > you to respect what I have done. Thanks. > > This seems like a recipe for confused users. If you don't have rc.subr > installed and you get squid run a running, it will break if you install > a port that installs rc.subr. That's a major POLA violation in my book. I would not say "major" since I thought about it and thus documented it in squid.sh (which I expect people to read, maybe I am too optimistic here) but I will refrain from using $PREFIX/etc.subr to enable rcNG functionality in further versions of squid.