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Re: contents of athena-base package

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Wed Jan 12 11:30:23 2000

To: oliver thomas <othomas@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>,
        BSG@mit.edu, release-team@mit.edu, source-developers@mit.edu,
        oliver thomas <othomas@mit.edu>
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 12 Jan 2000 11:26:56 -0500
In-Reply-To: oliver thomas's message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:07:24 -0500"
Message-ID: <u1hya9vcl2n.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>

oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU> writes:

> let me just make sure i grok the proposed changes: the plan is to move
> rc.conf variables to individual files, one for each variable, all in a
> single directory (i.e. something like /etc/athena/config), and each
> containing a line of the form "key=value"?  i think the only things i'd be
> concerned about are that the transition from the current model to the new
> one be as smooth as possible, and that we test it thoroughly.

The plan is to do this only for the Linux port.  I officially have No
Opinion Whatsoever about the other ports.  That makes the transition
issue moot.

Thomas

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