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Date:      Sat, 8 Jun 1996 17:32:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>, "Schwenk, Peter" <pschwenk@wcupa.edu>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Installing FreeBSD-stable 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.92.960608173105.22584X-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <1994.834278547@time.cdrom.com>

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Maybe SysV style rc/init scripts?  I hadn't used them much until we got an
Alpha, and once the learning hump was over, they were pretty nice..

On Sat, 8 Jun 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> Well, I thought that way too once, but I'm now coming to believe that
> about 50% of what's in /etc is old legacy crap (and I'm probably being
> generous) and the other 49% is boilerplate with hooks that just
> doesn't _need_ to change.  The remaining 1% should be distilled-down
> system-specific data which is the only part you consider 'hands off.'




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