Subject: Re: more work in rc.d [was Re: rc, rc.shutdown proposed change]
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/13/2000 18:27:04
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > I vote for 3, without automatic symbolic links (user needs to
> > something). pkg_enable sounds good to me.
>
> one more vote for pkg_enable, especially if it will permit support for
> shared (read-only?) /usr/pkg. pkg_enable should probably verify that
> all the relevant files are installed.
pkg_enable could do a lot more things than just throw in some symlink/file
somewhere. Frob inetd.conf, add users, etc. I'd prefer these to be
considered by anyone going that direction.
- Hubert
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