From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 6 09:13:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA27142 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 09:13:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA27137 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 09:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA11908; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 10:13:23 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 10:13:23 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199706061613.KAA11908@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Nate Williams , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any objection to the following? In-Reply-To: <21700.865613170@time.cdrom.com> References: <199706061601.KAA11774@rocky.mt.sri.com> <21700.865613170@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I thought the idea was to centralize as much as possible in > > /etc/rc.conf. This seems to be a step backwards.... > > To an extent, yes. However it's still damn hard to edit, and I really > see rc.conf's current format as more of a transitional thing anyway - > we really should have something which is machine editable there in the Hey, no arguement from me about the difficultly in following rc.conf. I would have preferred sticking with /etc/sysconfig personally since it's much easier to follow and understand, especially if this is transitional. But, in any case my comments were observational, not objections. You don't see me stepping up to the plate to take a shot at fixing it, do you? *grin* Nate