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From: Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/init.d/modules loading modules defined in files
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 23:59:52
Message-Id: 8760r0tgd7.fsf@kestrel.kyomu.43-1.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/init.d/modules loading modules defined in files by Matthias Maier
1 On Tue, Aug 16, 2016, at 18:49 CDT, Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016, at 18:20 CDT, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> All,
6 >>
7 >> I have received a request to implement a feature in OpenRC to allow
8 >> multiple software packages to drop files in a directory, /etc/modules.d
9 >> for example, which would define modules the /etc/init.d/modules script
10 >> would load.
11
12 One more point, /etc/modules.d was used back in the old update-modules
13 times. So, maybe we should avoid the directory due to historic reasons
14 [1].
15
16 Best,
17 Matthias
18
19 [1] I had /etc/modules.d and /etc/modules.conf lingering around now for
20 more than 3 years...

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