Removing the FreeBSD keyword
Brooks Davis
brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Mon Sep 27 12:55:19 PDT 2004
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 07:04:18PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I would like to remove the requirement that an rc.d script have
> a FreeBSD keyword. Since it's pretty clear that NetBSD and FreeBSD
> aren't going to share scripts the reason for the requirement no longer
> exists. If we can agree on this I would like to MFC it to RELENG_5.
> If it doesn't get MFCed it must be there for the entire 5.x life-cycle
> (which seems pretty stupid for something without any benefits).
>
> Getting rid of the requirement will also allow us to more easily
> implement what people have been asking for, for some time now:
> manipulating a group of related services.
All those mergemaster runs are going to hurt, but I think it's a good
idea.
-- Brooks
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