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Matt Dillon wrote:

|    If you try to make the thing 'perfect' in the first release you could
|    end up dragging development out many more weeks or months then otherwise.

Indeed.

|    I was thinking of something along the lines of an rc.conf variable that
|    causes /etc/rc to use the new system rather then the old.  That way someone
|    (like me) can simply set a single variable in /etc/rc.conf, keep all
|    the other rc.conf that was there intact, reboot, and magically be using
|    the new system.  If it doesn't work right, I can comment out the variable,
|    reboot again, and be back to my old system, and then generate a bug
|    report.

This is an excellent suggestion and will make it easier for
those of us who don't have the <resource> to contribute code to
at least test it and provide useful feedback.

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