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Date:      Sat, 7 Jan 2012 23:41:17 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Making use of set_rcvar.
Message-ID:  <20120107224116.GB1674@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <4F08C95F.6040808@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20120106141301.GE1693@garage.freebsd.pl> <4F079A76.3030306@FreeBSD.org> <20120107112538.GC1696@garage.freebsd.pl> <4F08C95F.6040808@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 02:38:23PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 01/07/2012 03:25, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 05:05:58PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> >> On 01/06/2012 06:13, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> >>> Any objections?
> >>>
> >>> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/set_rcvar.patch
> >>>
> >>> This patch only changes scripts where set_rcvar can be used with no
> >>> arguments.
> >>
> >> Please don't do this.
> >>
> >> Jilles already pointed out the important reason, it adds pointless
> >> forks. I suggested a long time ago that we remove set_rcvar altogether
> >> but I got a lot of resistance to it, and never pursued it. Perhaps it's
> >> time to revisit that.
> >=20
> > It is a total mess now then and it is definiately not intuitive when
> > there are much more bad examples than good ones:
>=20
> I agree, which is why I previously proposed assigning them all directly
> when possible (which is in almost all cases). If no one speaks up
> opposing this idea in the next few days I'm still prepared to proceed.

Don't forget to update documentation (rc(8)).

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