Subject: Re: When is the next release or snapshot due?
To: Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@quick.com.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/06/1997 16:03:02
Jordan writes:
>Well, just to be totally clear here:
>a) I dislike adding anything to /etc, especially things in the way of
> configuration files since for every file we to add, our tech
> support load seems to increase by log(n). :)
>b) Given a, there are still files in /etc which could stand improvement,
> one of them being rc.conf's list of directories to pass to ldconfig.
> I'm seeing more and more third parties wanting to dink with this,
> and I don't need to tell you that machine-editing of rc.conf is a
> royal PITA.
>c) If you find yourselves in agreement with b), perhaps NetBSD would care to
Strange, I think you just gave the argument in favour of /etc/rc.d :-)
[duks ;-]
--sjg
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Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@quick.com.au>
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