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Re: pkgsrc RC scripts



>> In fact, using a separate directory for local additions makes a lot
>> of sense.
> I disagree - there are some places where everything just has to come
> together, and this, I think, is one of them.

>> [...upgrades...]
> No, I didn't miss it, no question that for system upgrades, having
> everything nicely separated out makes things easier - just as it
> would if pkgsrc added users were in a different passwd file, etc.

I find it amusing, in a black-humour sort of way, that many of these
arguments - on both sides of the question - could be lifted with very
minor wording changes from the argument about splitting up /etc/rc into
/etc/rc.d/* back in early 2000, I think it was - except a bunch of
people have switched sides.

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