From owner-cvs-etc Fri Mar 31 04:53:17 1995 Return-Path: cvs-etc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA18181 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 04:53:17 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA18171; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 04:53:13 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA00697; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 13:42:42 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199503311242.NAA00697@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.i386 rc.i386 To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 13:42:42 +0100 (BST) Cc: pst@shockwave.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, ache@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503302337.PAA15164@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 30, 95 03:37:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1158 Sender: cvs-etc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said > > > Since everyone's entitled to an opinion, let me stuff mine down your > > throat. :-) > > > > Please only do this for rc.localish types of things. Getting the system > > order right and mucking with the numbers is historically a big pain in the > > ass in USG land. Trust me, I know this one. :-( > > So we are in violent agreement. > > The reason I want it is to give 3rd party packages a handle into the > boot procedure... Why? No third party packages are going to know how to use this interface so we'd have to hack things by hand anyway and personally I don't like the idea of there being a way to hook things automatically into the boot procedure. If I want to change/add things to my boot scripts I'll go and do it by hand. I'll have to check every bloody package I install to see if it's doing something nasty in rc.local.d from now on if we add this. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.