Subject: Re: a couple of package related issues
To: Jim Bernard <jbernard@ox.mines.edu>
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/31/1998 03:38:03
On Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 07:15:19PM -0600, Jim Bernard wrote:
> I can't resist pointing out that, if we had rc.d or something similar,
> there would be no issue here at all. pkg_add would dump a script into a
> standard location, and the system administrator would examine and activate
> it at his/her leisure. Of course, the very mention of the concept is
> considered blasphemy by some.
FreeBSD does this by having /usr/local/etc/rc.d (or actually
${PREFIX}/rc.d). I don't see it as a perfect solution (I'd like to
have dependencies between different packages be explict), but at least
it works...
Eivind.