Paul Traina stands accused of saying:
> Pull out the new userconfig ENTIRELY. Get rid of it. Instead, add a
> sysctl interface and a staticly linked program in /sbin to operate that
> interface. This keeps the kernel clean, and gives you access to fancy
> stuff in user mode. If you want to have the old userconfig for emergencies,
> I have absolutely no objection to that (it would be nice if it was #ifdef'ed).
Tell me how you plan to boot the system to the point where you can run this
usermode program. Remember that the whole idea behind the 'pretty'
userconfig was to aid the less cerebral among us in getting FreeBSD to the
booted point at all.
The original design was simple and straightforward; feeping creaturitis
has since bloated it a little, but it's not what you'd call a monster.
> (hell, then you can use curses if you want).
That wouldn't help; dumb terminals still wouldn't be supported.
> Paul
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