cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:13:53AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:59:53 -0600 (MDT)
> "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> > In message: <200506091257.j59CvVNu043268 at grovel.grondar.org>
> >             Mark Murray <markm at freebsd.org> writes:
> > : "David O'Brien" writes:
> > : > > It's not a FreeBSD convention.  If the underscore serves no other
> > : > > purpose than satisfying an OpenBSD convention, it should go.
> > : > 
> > : > Agreed.
> > : 
> > : Also agreed.
> > 
> > These user names are coded into the programs we're importing.  As
> > such, if we change the names that are used, then we have to change the
> > code that references them too.  For _pflogd, this would mean taking
> > files off the vendor branches.  For _dhcp, it isn't so bad.  By why
> > gratuitously change it?
> 
> While I like the idea of removing the underscore, I'm worried
> about the potential havoc that could have on future imports.
> 
> Would we be creating even more work for those who maintain them
> just because the underscores are ``not convention?''

I don't care about the work in the dhcp case.  We're deliberately going
to allow dhclient to diverge from OpenBSD as needed.  It's not such a
massive program that we need to be overly paranoid about difficulty of
merges.

At this point I'm seeing a roughly even split in opinion so I plan to
leave it alone unless that changes dramatically.

-- Brooks

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