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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Feb 22), Joe Marcus Clarke said:
> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 00:54, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > 
> > WHY in the world is there even a /usr/local/etc/rc.subr ???
> > /etc/rc.subr on 5-CURRENT is perfectly fine.
> 
> It was needed for a short time to workaround a package problem on
> bento.  As of the last round of bsd.*.mk changes, this is no longer the
> case.  /etc/rc.subr is used where it exists.

Also needed for 4.x systems.

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	Dan Nelson
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