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Date:      Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:41:21 +0100
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
To:        Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: revising sys/conf/files* dependencies
Message-ID:  <20130306084121.GA85685@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <20130306083420.GJ955@alchemy.franken.de>
References:  <20130305083817.GD13187@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <112844CF-69C3-49A3-8581-8EF2A7DA8E8A@bsdimp.com> <20130305211953.GA51357@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <6A93AA58-713D-4C25-A512-6927E27C5DE1@bsdimp.com> <20130306010720.GA68018@alchemy.franken.de> <20130306061119.GA77841@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20130306083420.GJ955@alchemy.franken.de>

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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


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