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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Subject: Re: revising sys/conf/files* dependencies
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:34:21AM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 07:11:19AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 02:07:20AM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
...
> > Marius, just to clarify:
> > 
> >     sys/conf/files has no reasonable way to express dependencies.
> 
> Correct, as Warner already said, but what you propose isn't an
> acceptable workaround.

it wasn't my intention to propose a workaround, i only preferred
a more useful (in my opinion) failure mode.
But given that there is little feedback and no agreement
i'll take back my proposal.

thanks for the comments
luigi