On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:

: Frankly I think it had advantages but the cost was too high and should have
: been scrapped. Unfortunately the "curse" of the open software movement is
: that we get to revisit these mistakes again and again and again and never
: get out of the cycle (talk to me about "transport independent" RPC sometime)

I presume you aren't blaming NetBSD's incarnation here?  After all, our rc.d
is not like the other systems at all:  it has been spcifically designed with
the lessons learned from the previous methods in mind.

I hated it at first, but once I got used to the provide/require/before
system, this became damned useful.  8-)

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