On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:25:49PM +0100, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Doug, > > Sorry for the late reply. > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:58:25AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > No one is suggesting removing rc.local, and I would vigorously oppose > > doing > > so. > > > > As I said in my last message, if users respond to the deprecation warning > > with a request not to remove it, we can convert it to being a regular rc.d > > script. That way it's only a little dangerous instead of being super > > dangerous and potentially fatal. > > Letting appart the fact that you consider early.sh as a hack, it may > still be quite useful as other posts in this thread have shown. > > What do you think of something like this: > > /etc/defaults/rc.conf: > % inline_early=NO > > /etc/rc.d/early.sh > % if checkyesno inline_early; then > % . /etc/rc.early > % else > % (. /etc/rc.early) > % fi
This seems like a decent compromise to me. -- Brooks
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