Subject: Re: Why people know what FreeBSD and OpenBSD are, but not NetBSD.
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/07/1999 16:34:30
Curt Sampson writes:
> 
> Do you have some examples of where we are doing this currently?
> Certainly not with the new /etc/rc stuff: few people argue that
> /etc/rc?.d/S00foo stuff doesn't suck, and no matter which way we
> do it, we're going to be incompatable with either System V or Linux.

But "doesn't suck" features for /etc/rc like the FreeBSD 'rc.conf.default'
or whatever, where 'rc.conf' only has overrides of default values, should
be ok?  This is much easier to maintain, rather than editing rc.conf 
repeatedly when tracking -current. 

-Andrew
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