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 ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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