cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth beastie.4th

[Scott Long]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:34:59PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Scott Long wrote:
> >
> > > Adding
> > >
> > > beastie_disable="YES"
> > >
> > > to loader.conf* is appropriate for your case.
> >
> > Ah, sorry if I missed that. If we can keep /boot/loader.conf and
> > /boot/defaults/loader.conf up to date with installworld, and leave
> > /boot/*.local alone, I withdraw my suggestion to do it in src/etc.
> >
> We already do it like this, the story was about /boot/loader.rc,
> not */loader.conf.  sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile has this:
>
> .if !exists(${DESTDIR}/boot/loader.rc)
> FILES+=	${.CURDIR}/loader.rc
> .endif
>

Right.  This wart is due to the vile reaction I received from many people
who not only hated the idea of the menu, but were horribly offended that
they might have to take the effort to turn it off in their local system.
Thus, this keeps them safely shielded from having to deal with it.

Scott