[Bug 137271] [rc.d] Cannot update /etc/host.conf when root filesystems mount read-only

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--- Comment #6 from Ruben Kerkhof <ruben at rubenkerkhof.com> ---
Yes, one can work around it by symlinking /etc/host.conf to somewhere
writeable. If you're doing that you might as well remove the nsswitch script if
nothing needs host.conf

But this is one more thing to customize. I agree with Jilles, perhaps it's time
to remove /etc/rc.d/nsswitch. FreeBSD 4 went EOL 9 years ago. People who want
to run FreeBSD binaries with a custom host resolution order can easily create
/etc/host.conf themselves. Hopefully they still know how to do that since
host.conf isn't documented as far as I can tell.

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