OPTIONS, LATEST_LINK, and RCng

Thomas-Martin Seck tmseck-lists at netcologne.de
Tue Feb 24 11:27:43 PST 2004


* Brooks Davis (brooks at one-eyed-alien.net):

> 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.

I would not say "major" since I thought about it and thus documented it
in squid.sh (which I expect people to read, maybe I am too optimistic
here) but I will refrain from using $PREFIX/etc.subr to enable rcNG
functionality in further versions of squid.


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