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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Any objection to the following?
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> This brings in the /etc/ld.so.conf behavior from NetBSD/Linux and
> makes it possible to add directories to the ldconfig list without
> editing /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> Since this is also a zero-impact change (if you have no ld.so.conf,
> and there would be no default, it does nothing) it would also go into
> 2.2.

I thought the idea was to centralize as much as possible in
/etc/rc.conf.  This seems to be a step backwards....

(Otherwise, no objections....)



Nate