[FreeBSD-rc] Re: RFC: Removal of the old rc system from -current

[Ceri Davies]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 03:04:29PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> Scott Long writes:
> > My premise is this: there are people who cvsup and build world on a
> > regular basis, track current@, etc, and there are those who are only
> > interested in running official releases.  My concern is not the first
> > group, but the second group.  The old rc system has been around for
> > quite some time, and it might be a shock if it disappears without
> > warning.
> 
> This would be a plus IMO. I'm aware of at least one FreeBSDer who
> installed from CD and wondered why his changes to rc.* (not rc.d.*)
> didn't work at all. Removing those files simplifies things.

Yes.  Those users are unlikely to know to specify rc_ng="NO" , so rc.*
won't work for them anyway.

Ceri
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