From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 14:45:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA7437B401 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arthur.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B3943FCB for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@arthur.nitro.dk) Received: by arthur.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AA30E10BFA8; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:44:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:44:57 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Ryan Thompson Message-ID: <20030724214457.GE2349@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030724151823.T620@stimpy.sasknow.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NY6JkbSqL3W9mApi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030724151823.T620@stimpy.sasknow.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.conf variables required by ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:45:00 -0000 --NY6JkbSqL3W9mApi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003.07.24 15:34:15 -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: >=20 > Hi all, >=20 > Installation of the Linux base system is finished. The Linux kernel > mode, which must be enabled for Linux binaries to run, is now > enabled. Linux mode can be enabled permanently with the linux_enable > variable of rc.conf(5). >=20 > Since it would be so trivial, is there a good reason why we don't > automate (echo "linux_enable=3D\"YES\"" >> /etc/rc.conf), and similar > additions from other ports? Checking a few other ports, none of them > that I found do this either... >=20 > Maybe there's a general principle I'm missing... :-) "Don't mess with peoples config files without asking them" :-) If just the port asks the user, I think it would be OK. Unless somebody else thinks it is a bad idea, I would suggest making a patch and submitting it via a PR. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team New PGP key 0x27359A51 Fingerprint: 912B F341 7E90 2049 05B4 3800 87DA 5C0D 2735 9A51 --NY6JkbSqL3W9mApi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/IFNZh9pcDSc1mlERAisgAJ49viQ4KvTSE6w4yUuIEosqvchmvQCgp7qM O5lVgfr/yjHsVN9mLaTGVMw= =ipQk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NY6JkbSqL3W9mApi--