Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:42:36 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509281742.KAA12874@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199509281234.HAA06384@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Sep 28, 95 07:34:28 am
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> > I think my biggest objection is that it requires install-time configuration > > administration as part of the install. > > Why do you say that? You can just install a prebuilt canned makefile or > whatever. And startup is no special case... there are all sorts of files > that could be usefully built the same way (ttys, gettydefs, inetd.conf, ...) Because the installation *is* the activation of the package. I think that install and activation should be held seperate. Hence my support for the rc[0-6].d/symlink -> init.d. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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