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[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:19:08AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On 15/3/06 19:15, "Alfred Morgan" <alfred.morgan at experclick.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> In this document:
> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/rc-scripts.h
> >> tml
> >>
> >> Can we change:
> >>
> >> rcvar=${name}_enable
> >>
> >> to be :
> >>
> >> rcvar=`set_rcvar`
> >>
> >> so that it would be a good example how to be other OS (OpenBSD)
> >> compatible as well.
> 
> The set_rcvar function simply returns ${name}_enable, so setting that value
> explicitly in the example removes a layer of indirection, and helps make it
> more clear what's happening there, which makes it a better example.

I disagree unless we're planning to deprecate set_rcvar.  Either we
should always use it in new scripts (and thus in examples) or get rid of
it.

-- Brooks

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