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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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To: peter@taronga.com, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
> > > 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.

You're either not paying attention to the makefile proposal, or failing
to see obvious parallels.

Creating the symlink from rcN.d to init.d is the same as changing the name
of the init chunk from "package.NO" to "package.mk" and running "makerc".

If you don't, it is there, but does not run on startup. If you do, it
runs on startup. What's the functional difference?

-coranth

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