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Date:      Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:12:02 -0700
From:      Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
To:        Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d
Message-ID:  <200009081812.LAA07171@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
In-Reply-To: <39B8F928.C9F4339@camtech.net.au>
References:  <39B8E865.B77012B@camtech.net.au> <20000908153421.A58134@mithrandr.moria.org> <39B8F928.C9F4339@camtech.net.au>

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On Sep 9, 12:05am, Matthew Thyer wrote:
} Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d
} Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:

} > I'd prefer a dependency based system.  (cf. Eivind Eklund's newrc, at
} > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~eivind/newrc.tar.gz)

How does this compare with what NetBSD implemented?

} I haven't looked at this yet but off the top of my head, a dependency
} based system sounds overly complicated (consider ports authors) and
} unecessarily different from other systems.

NetBSD switched to a dependency based system a while back.  Judging by
the traffic on their mail lists, it was somewhat controversial ...


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