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Date:      Sun, 3 Aug 1997 17:03:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Some thoughts and ideas, and quirks
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.970803170217.1341C-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199708032130.OAA02371@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Personally, I would prefer to make all configuration runtime with
> demand-loaded kernel modules.
> 
> It is my considered opinion that *any* user driven kernel
> configuration (text file *or* menu based) is antiquated
> baloney.
> 
> So you can guess that I'm not really a fan of replacing one type
> of baloney with another type of baloney, regardless of it's
> pedigree.
> 

That brings me to another thought or 5 ;) . What about an rc.modules?
Also, some things are lacking, like for instance it appears to me that you
don't need to statically compile ccd or ppp devices.  However the uid
filesystem thing does need to be statically compiled as does ext2, both
typos in the lint, and man pages, etc.

- alex




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