On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:35:35PM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> 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),

Ok, cool. That'll make rc.d much cleaner.

> maintaining compatibility in rc.subr(8) and in the "end user experience"
> is useful.

As for rc.subr(8) I tried to interest
you in a small patch once but it never got anywhere (I don't recall the
reason). It would be nice if we could maintain compatibility, but the burden
can't be on us (FreeBSD) to do all the work.

Cheers.
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