PR 105568

[Ceri Davies]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:47:44PM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> On 11/15/06, Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> 
> >You'll probably find that it isn't debatable.  If adding this patch as
> >is results in boot-time prompting for every single foo_enable option in
> >rc.conf then it won't get committed.  If I've misunderstood what the
> >default does, please say so.
> 
> Yes you've misunderstood the meaning of default, I'm sorry because
> this is probably my fault, as English isn't my native language. So,...
> 
> Variables set with foo_enable=[yes|no] will maintain the behavior they have 
> now.
> 
> Variables set with foo_enable=ask will be treaded as follows:
> - user is asked to enter yes or no at startup,
> - if after the default-timeout or daemon-specific-timeout is elapsed
> the user hasn't still chosen, a default-response or
> daemon-specific-response is taken into account to decide whether the
> daemon is to be started or not.

OK, that sounds reasonable.  Apologies for the confusion.

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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