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Date:      Tue, 02 Sep 2003 10:12:18 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/rescue/rescue Makefile 
Message-ID:  <43017.1062490338@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:57:26 %2B0700." <20030902075726.GB72639@regency.nsu.ru> 

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In message <20030902075726.GB72639@regency.nsu.ru>, Alexey Dokuchaev writes:
>On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:50:23AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> > NOATM and NOINET6 were preexisting options, and rather than start
>> > the "1.0 compatibility at any cost!" bikeshed I simply have propagated
>> > them to other relevant places.
>> 
>> The last few times this came up, the consensus was for WORD_SEPERATORS
>> in new options.
>
>I second this consensus.
>Does anyone consider renaming those knobs that we don't have to rely on
>being particularly named for compatibility with older FreeBSD versions?
>(Just wondering.)

The crucial word here is "_new_ options", these were existing options.

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