From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 8 11:40:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0EA37B42C for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13XT26-000G5f-00; Fri, 08 Sep 2000 20:37:50 +0200 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:37:50 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Don Lewis Cc: Matthew Thyer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d Message-ID: <20000908203750.A61727@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <39B8E865.B77012B@camtech.net.au> <20000908153421.A58134@mithrandr.moria.org> <39B8F928.C9F4339@camtech.net.au> <200009081812.LAA07171@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200009081812.LAA07171@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>; from Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:12:02AM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 2000-09-08 (11:12), Don Lewis wrote: > 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 ... Eivind's system is almost exactly the same. I wonder if they used it as a base. (they also seem to use etc/default from March this year) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message