On Dec 24, 2011, at 5:30 AM, Maxim Ignatenko wrote: > On 24 December 2011 04:15, Doug Barton <[email protected]> wrote: >> This idea has been considered before and rejected because it's too >> difficult to catch all the corner cases, and actually editing a config >> file is not really all that hard of a thing to do. >> > > The idea was to make enabling/disabling services less error-prone. It > don't need to catch _all_ corner cases, because if administrator do > something unusual with startup configuration he should be able to > manipulate it in proper way, or even have tools that do something > similar. > Proposed patch handles /etc/rc.conf, /etc/rc.conf.local and > /etc/rc.conf.d/* properly (I hope), so it should fit nicely in 95% of > cases. > Doing `service someserive enable` is much faster and less error-prone > that `service someservice rcvar ; echo someservicercvar_enable=YES >> > /etc/rc.conf`
Also, let's not reject it before it is done. Let's reject it when it actually doesn't handle the cases that are interesting. No sense in cutting off a good feature because of some theoretical problem. It is a problem we have sometimes in the project... Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
