Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:47:08 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509260347.WAA27526@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199509251417.KAA12111@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 25, 95 10:17:46 am
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> 1) Explicit (complex) numbering in the single directory Experience shows that the parenthetical (complex) is just not true. > 2) Mirrors of the "init.d" directory into other directories "rcN.d" > with explicit numbering in those This is nice. > 3) Script to run from that directory to control order. That's where we are now. > 4) Control file. That's identical to #3. > #2 - You get whole directories of symlinks. Yuk. Lots of headaches. A name in a file is a symbolic link, too. Except it's harder to add. > #4 Works very simply. Ports can add one line to a config file, And where pray tell do they add the line? At the end? Then you might as well go back to #1 except now they'll be in random order. And anywhere else just doesn't bear thinking about. > Why complicate things? Dependencies on startup order.
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