svn commit: r179669 - head/sbin/rcorder

[Mike Makonnen]

Doug Barton wrote:
> Mike Makonnen wrote:
>> [ cc'ing -rc ]
>>
>> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>> Mike Makonnen <mtm at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>>>   Document the misleading nature of the REQUIRE line. The patch in
>>>>   the PR has been heavily edited for style(9) and clarity. Mistakes 
>>>> are
>>>>   mine.
>>>
>>> How about s/REQUIRE/AFTER/, to mirror BEFORE?
>>
>> I would be in favor of that. Any objections?
>
> In some ways I think this would be a good change, although I confess I 
> have a yellow warning light in the "possibly gratuitous change" 
> column. My preference would be that we ask the netbsd guys about this 
> before we do it, either so that they can consider doing it also, or to 
> warn us about why it would be a bad idea.
It may seem gratuitous, but on the other hand if it prevents 
misunderstandings of the kind that spawned this thread in the first 
place, then I think it's worth doing. As far as NetBSD is concerned we 
can have compatibility by simply *not* removing support for "REQUIRED". 
We can simply list it as supported but deprecated in the documentation.

Cheers.

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