Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:52:05 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PR 105568 Message-ID: <20061115215205.GO52929@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <e572718c0611151347n15c7129apba6c58d826e84afe@mail.gmail.com> References: <e572718c0611151143x434dbf4cjc867ef630c2c989@mail.gmail.com> <20061115203121.GL52929@submonkey.net> <e572718c0611151325y28f0b64cy6eb052f55214550d@mail.gmail.com> <20061115213609.GM52929@submonkey.net> <e572718c0611151347n15c7129apba6c58d826e84afe@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:47:44PM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> On 11/15/06, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:
>
> >You'll probably find that it isn't debatable. If adding this patch as
> >is results in boot-time prompting for every single foo_enable option in
> >rc.conf then it won't get committed. If I've misunderstood what the
> >default does, please say so.
>
> Yes you've misunderstood the meaning of default, I'm sorry because
> this is probably my fault, as English isn't my native language. So,...
>
> Variables set with foo_enable=[yes|no] will maintain the behavior they have
> now.
>
> Variables set with foo_enable=ask will be treaded as follows:
> - user is asked to enter yes or no at startup,
> - if after the default-timeout or daemon-specific-timeout is elapsed
> the user hasn't still chosen, a default-response or
> daemon-specific-response is taken into account to decide whether the
> daemon is to be started or not.
OK, that sounds reasonable. Apologies for the confusion.
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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