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Date:      Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:59:53 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        markm@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd 
Message-ID:  <20050609.085953.81089963.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <200506091257.j59CvVNu043268@grovel.grondar.org>
References:  <20050609120120.GC73244@dragon.NUXI.org> <200506091257.j59CvVNu043268@grovel.grondar.org>

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In message: <200506091257.j59CvVNu043268@grovel.grondar.org>
            Mark Murray <markm@freebsd.org> writes:
: "David O'Brien" writes:
: > > It's not a FreeBSD convention.  If the underscore serves no other
: > > purpose than satisfying an OpenBSD convention, it should go.
: > 
: > Agreed.
: 
: Also agreed.

These user names are coded into the programs we're importing.  As
such, if we change the names that are used, then we have to change the
code that references them too.  For _pflogd, this would mean taking
files off the vendor branches.  For _dhcp, it isn't so bad.  By why
gratuitously change it?

Warner



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