Well, being one to administer my growing herd of NetBSD boxes (and even
those of others) I very much want to be able to both control and verify
(preferably at a glance) what gets run at boot automatically.  The fact
that someone installs a pkg should not automatically start new services.
One example being when you develop a package -- you probably don't want
it run until you are fully done with it -- and the machine may need to
be rebooted before you are done.

Please, let's also improve NetBSD for us admins.

+ Kim


sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld) writes:

| 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.  I really have better things to do
| with my time; I'd rather put my effort into improving NetBSD rather
| than administering my growing herd of netbsd boxes.
| 
| 						- Bill
-- 
Kimmo Suominen
kim@tac.nyc.ny.us