Hello, On 28. januar 2015 at 11:02 PM, "Ingo Schwarze" <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > >When you do need flags, it needs only one variable instead of two, >which means less complexity.
Due to OpenBSD's excellent "convention over configuration" (1), most people don't need flags. Your argument that the current scheme leads to less complexity is nonsensical at best. Less characters maybe, but are we really joining together two different variables (startup and configuration) for the sake of saving space? Like Einstein said, "things should be as simple as possible, but not any simpler". `daemon_flags` carries absolutely no indication of whether this daemon is to be enabled or not. Like my teacher used to say, good design should, where possible, make immediate sense to the user (2). In the case of `rc.conf.local`, this is possible by splitting the current variable into `daemon_enable=YES` and `daemon_flags=""` respectively. As for `pkg_scripts`, I'm also a fan of the way FreeBSD handles this by letting you specify `<pkg>_enable="YES"` directly in order to keep things consistent. Having said that, this is pretty much where my admiration of FreeBSD ends :-) Many thanks! O.D. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_over_configuration (2) http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515
