OPTIONS, LATEST_LINK, and RCng

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Mon Feb 23 17:48:25 PST 2004


On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:25:24PM +0100, Thomas-Martin Seck wrote:
> www/squid respects rcNG but does not enforce its use on non-rcNG
> systems. I do not know why this is such a problem for you. I would
> really like you to stop doing advocacy on this right now and instead ask
> you to respect what I have done. Thanks.

This seems like a recipe for confused users.  If you don't have rc.subr
installed and you get squid run a running, it will break if you install
a port that installs rc.subr.  That's a major POLA violation in my book.

-- Brooks

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