Message-Id: <199509300538.HAA26736@grumble.grondar.za>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, John Capo <jc@irbs.com>,
        gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs),
        ache@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org,
        cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin Makefile 
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 07:38:08 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>

I was complaining about hacks in _makefiles_. This is an example of doing
things OK. In fact it it GREAT. When do we start? ;-)

M

> > I agree, but with great reservation. I would HATE to see too many
> > user configurable hacks in the global system makefiles. I would rather
> > the apps handle this sort of thing intelligently.
> 
> Registry!  Registry!
> 
> Would you like to see everything from .emacs to .fvwmrc *go away*?
> Would you like to see an end to the question of how an arbitrary port
> stores its startup configuration and/or adds itself to the list of
> apps started at boot time?
> Would you like to be able to find out, at a glance, just what version
> of a given piece of software (or entire subsystem) you were running?
> Would you like to see sysctl() done CORRECTLY?
> 
> Registry!  Registry!
> 
> The only problem is, you need the rest of the world to go along.  Not
> easy.  Implmenting an NT style registry (with substantial improvements
> over NT - they didn't get it exactly right nor does it deal with the
> multiple user issue very well) would be easy.  Getting applications
> weenies to use it would not.
> 
> The latter reason is mainly why I haven't implemented it yet.. :-(
> 
> 					Jordan
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