On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 08:33:59AM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > In the last episode (Jul 31), Dima Dorfman said:
> > > Does anybody know (remember?) why portmap_enable (the rc.conf knob)
> > > wasn't renamed to rpcbind_enable when portmap became rpcbind? It
> > > seems odd to have a knob called portmap_enable that actually starts
> > > something called rpcbind (not to mention violating POLA).
> >
> > Probably to keep existing rc.conf's from breaking. Same reason we've
> > still got xntpd_enable.
>
> Why not change the names now, but keep the old ones working until,
> say, 5.0 is branched? People moving from 4.x will have enough hurdles
> to jump through as it is, and those using -current will have half a
> year to change it.
It still is an extra change for people updating from 4.X to 5.0.
Maybe we should just make a portmap_program variable which is set
to portmap in -stable and rpcbind in -current. At least things
would be orthogonal then.
David.
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