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Date:      Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:02:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      ADRIAN Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981118005029.1471C-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04011714b2780414ea5c@[128.113.24.47]>

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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> > I don't see a lot of users upgrading to FreeBSD 3.0.1 or what have
> > you and being pleased that they now are lost because of a gratuitous
> > change.
> 
> What changes are average (*) users going to be "lost" in?

	Right, it is immaterial to the average user.  The people who would
suffer the most from such a change would be the people who do know the
system like the back of their hand.  

> but the ones you've presented are not very convincing to me.  It
> wouldn't surprise me if this topic has been debated before, and
> if there are some other more convincing reasons not to do it,

	It has.  There are.  Search the mail archives.  It comes up every
year or so.  And every year it gets plowed under.

	Adrian
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