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Date:      Thu, 3 Jul 2003 09:51:06 -0400
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        murray@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: comments on the new rcNG section.
Message-ID:  <20030703095106.11e8dc8e.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F042AC4.9080804@centtech.com>
References:  <20030520233353.E8403@freebsdmall.com> <3F042AC4.9080804@centtech.com>

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On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 08:08:20 -0500
Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> wrote:

> Murray Stokely wrote:
> > I don't recall if I mentioned this or not, but I don't think we should
> > list all 40 files in /etc/rc.d/ in the rcNG section.  It's just going
> > to generate silly PRs when new files are added.  It doesn't really
> > matter or add anything to the text.  It's just filler.  I suggest we
> > invite users to type ls on their own system and maybe list a few files
> > followed by '...'.  Attempting to list all, even after qualifying it
> > with something like "at the time of this writing", is I think in
> > general a bad idea unless it is really necessary for clarify.
> > 
> > I think this new section could in general do with some more
> > wordsmithing.  I'll take another look at it in 24 hours if noone beats
> > me to it.
> 
> Wow - this must have gotten jammed up on hub.freebsd.org somehow:
> 
[SNIP HEADERS]
> 
> Hopefully this wasn't crucial then.. :)
> 
> Eric
> 

Not really, I did get a copy when it was originally sent.  :)

--
Tom Rhodes



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