cvs commit: src/rescue/rescue Makefile

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Sep 2 01:12:22 PDT 2003


In message <20030902075726.GB72639 at 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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