Andrew Gillham wrote:

> 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. 

There was a discussion on tech-userlevel about this in early Octoberr
but it lost steam (probably my fault).  I agree that this would a good
thing for 1.5 - I'll see where that dicussion got up to...

Simon.