Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:01:15 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/105568: [patch] Add more flexibility to rc.conf, to choose "_enable" values at startup Message-ID: <4706B42B.20207@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4703A8B6.80803@gahr.ch> References: <200710012040.l91KeC2t097859@freefall.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710011753400.1408@ync.qbhto.arg> <47022870.7030607@gahr.ch> <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710021522150.23009@ync.qbhto.arg> <fee88ee40710021541ke648672r23db8e1b9a04fe56@mail.gmail.com> <4703A8B6.80803@gahr.ch>
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Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> I have no problem accepting the fact that you don't need this feature,
> but, on the contrary, it seems that you have a problem accepting the
> fact that someone could find it useful.
That is certainly not true for me, and I don't think it's true for Kian
either. I can see how _someone_ could find it useful, I just don't think
that a majority of our users would benefit from this.
> The feature doesn't change any defaults, don't have any side effects and
> can merely be ignored if you don't want to use it.
>
> Why are you so reluctant in accepting it?
The rc.d system is critical to FreeBSD, and making boot time faster is a
goal that always have in front of us. We have to critically examine
every single suggestion for modifications to it, and the bias is
strongly in the direction of not adding something that won't be
beneficial to the majority of our users.
Every extra line of code adds complexity and some amount of processing
time, no matter how small. It's very easy to go from a streamlined
system (which IMO rc.d is not yet) to a bloated pig one centimeter at a
time.
I don't expect you to necessarily agree with my analysis, but I wanted
to explain more of the reasoning behind it, which hopefully will help
you understand that we're not just rejecting your proposal out of hand.
Doug
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