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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:48:24AM -0300, Daniel Capo Sobral wrote:
> When I first wrote the loader.conf thingy, I couldn't get the value
> of environment variables from the FICL environment.
...
> Anyway, I have been too busy lately to do anything with FreeBSD that
> is not directly related to things I have to do at work, and it doesn't
> look like slacking up so soon. So, unfortunately, I don't have time to
> do any of the little things that have been cropping up with loader.

A very good reason the loader should have used something other then a
language only 1% of the FreeBSD committers (and entire community) has
knowledge of.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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