Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 17:02:27 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> Cc: "Schwenk, Peter" <pschwenk@wcupa.edu>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD-stable Message-ID: <1994.834278547@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jun 1996 15:01:12 PDT." <199606082201.PAA19969@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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> Yes, but who's to decide what is non-mutable. What if I decided to > remove that one and install my own super-netstart script, and a > heavily modified rc? I believe everything in /etc is fair game. Well, I thought that way too once, but I'm now coming to believe that about 50% of what's in /etc is old legacy crap (and I'm probably being generous) and the other 49% is boilerplate with hooks that just doesn't _need_ to change. The remaining 1% should be distilled-down system-specific data which is the only part you consider 'hands off.' Now, if there's something you really need to do that the existing hooks don't cover, then I think it's a good time to add another generalized hook and get it committed, not declare large parts of /etc hands-off and condemned to mustiness. /etc has been a dumping ground for too long now - let's clean the damn thing up! :-) Jordan
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