svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc

[Bryan Drewery]

> On Jun 7, 2018, at 03:29, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 01:02:25PM -0600, Brad Davis wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>>> ...
>>> So each installworld would wipe over the top of any localmod /etc/rc.d/
>>> and other stuff that mght exist?
>>> One of the reasons that etc/Makefile is detached from Installword is so
>>> that /etc does not get perturbuted unless specifically requested.
>> 
>> Yes, this is by design.
>> 
>> If people need custom tweaks for that stuff they should be upstreamed or
>> moved into /usr/local/etc/rc.d as a custom startup script.
> 
> This is rather questionable design to me.  I don't consider my scripts
> as binaries and like them in /etc/rc.d/ and managed via mergemaster -Fi.
> Everything was perfectly fine with it.  What exactly the problem you're
> trying to solve here?

For me the biggest selling point of FreeBSD has always been how configurable and customizable it has been (without modifying src). Especially the rc files and patterns of .local in /etc.


> 
> ./danfe
>