On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:52:42AM -0500, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> 
> > The primary advantage of an rc.d-style system is that it enables
> > fail-safe addition and deletion of daemons and other boot-time
> > activities as part of packages.
> >
> > Some of the more vocal opponents of rc.d seem to prefer that we
> > continue to require that people hack their /etc/rc.local file by hand
> > whenever they want to add services.
> 
> Perhaps you should try actually reading what the `opponents' have
> written?
> 
> The problem with the current bogus hack is that it DOES NOT do what
> you say.  It's still necessary to edit rc.conf to make daemons
> actually run.
> 
> If we had at least done the /etc/config/ thing, as was suggested...

What he said. I'm all for a rc.d style system, but the one which has been
commited seems to have the cons of both monolitic scripts and rd.d systems.
Several of us have said that, if I remember rigth.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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