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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 2014 13:00:03 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
Cc:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg?
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On 17 July 2014 12:57, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> 3) The binary packages need to work out of the box
>> 4) .. which means, when you do things like pkg install apache, it
>> can't just be installed and not be enabled, because that's a bit of a
>> problem;
>
> I disagree on this. For network services on linux ( apart from ssh ), I want
> that started very seldom. But I do want the package installed so that when I
> need it, it is there. Having it autostart as part of being installed is
> breaking KISS and in some way unix philosophy: I asked for something to be
> installed, not installed and autostarted.

That's cool. We can disagree on that. But the fact that you have to
edit a file to enable things and hope you get the right start entry in
/etc/rc.conf or /usr/local/etc/rc.conf, or wherever you put it is, is
a pain.




-a



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