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Re: rc variables (Re: cups)


From: joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:50:05 +0200
Mail-followup-to: users@crater.dragonflybsd.org

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:49:27AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :I agree 100%.  It'd also be good for documentation, because I don't think
> :anyone's gone through the docs to do s/_enable//g yet.
> 
>     I rather wish pkgsrc used blah_enable instead of overloading the RC
>     namespace the way they do.  I really prefer the _enable version.
>     I guess it wouldn't be too bad of a hack to support both methods.

Unlikely. The _enable version was a hack FreeBSD added when import
NetBSD RC system and it doesn't add any value but creating another
function call. Or to make it even blunter: the use of set_rcvar doesn't
work on !FreeBSD, !DragonFly at all.

Joerg



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