misc/70231: Beastie not by default

[Ruslan Ermilov]

The following reply was made to PR misc/70231; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
To: Hanspeter Roth <hampi at rootshell.be>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/70231: Beastie not by default
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:31:26 +0300

 On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:00:39PM +0000, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR misc/70231; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Hanspeter Roth <hampi at rootshell.be>
 > To: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>,
 > 	FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
 > Cc:  
 > Subject: Re: misc/70231: Beastie not by default
 > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:54:38 +0200
 > 
 >    On Aug 17 at 21:11, Ceri Davies spoke:
 >  
 >  > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:39:05AM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
 >  > 
 >  > > 	The "Beastie" boot-menu makes sense. 
 >  > > 	Just displaying such a beastie make reality ridiculous.
 >  > > 	The Beastie should not be displayed by default.
 >  > 
 >  > Why would we want to display anything other than the logo which graces
 >  > our website?
 >  
 >  I and probably others don't want to see the Beastie each time we
 >  have to boot an occasionally choose an option from the menu.
 >  The Beastie is not neutral. Such a logo is offending.
 >  
 Put
 
 	beastie_disable="YES"
 
 into your /boot/loader.conf, and go on with your life.
 
 
 Cheers,
 -- 
 Ruslan Ermilov
 ru at FreeBSD.org
 FreeBSD committer