der Mouse wrote:

> > [...] were configurable via settings in rc.conf [...]
> 
> I recently set up a couple of systems from a fairly recent source tree,
> and I've got two comments about rc.conf:
> 
> (1) Why rc.local.conf instead of rc.conf.local?  It's localized
>     additions to rc.conf, not a config file for rc.local.

I believe the reasoning was so that configurable files would end in
``.conf''.  The discussion should be in the mailling list archives
somewhere.

Simon.