On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:30:37PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote:
| Does this mean we should remove the rest of the compatibility stuff
| in other scripts? As you say, the NetBSD folks don't seem interested
| in our changes. We originally had that compatibility stuff because
| we expected to iron them out with NetBSD, but it's been a full year
| since we did this and several attempts to get the NetBSD folks interested
| have failed. Plus, it just makes the affected scripts more cluttered
| and confusing.

FWIW; whilst NetBSD is unlikely to share the same /etc/rc.d/* scripts
with FreeBSD (10 years of feature skew between our projects),
maintaining compatibility in rc.subr(8) and in the "end user experience"
is useful.


Cheers,
Luke.