Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 14:39:50 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu Cc: jehamby@lightside.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Congrats on CURRENT 5/1 SNAP... Message-ID: <199605202139.OAA28549@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605202002.PAA03266@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> from "Soren Dayton" at May 20, 96 03:02:33 pm
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> > and revamp the boot scripts to support > > SVR4-style /etc/init.d for safer package installs. > > I would like to see this happen. I find it much more flexible than > one flat file. Are there compelling reasons for keeping the current > structure for boot scripts. There are compelling modular installation and packaging reasons for *not* keepingthe current structure. One issue that SVR4 does not address (doesn't mean we can't) is a read-only / (and therefore /etc) and the ability to support drop-in per system package/daemon configurations anyway. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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