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- From: ned@sigurd.innosoft.com (Ned Freed (Postmaster))
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- Subject: RE: Request for minor changes to installation procedure
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- Date: 25 Jul 92 17:54:14 GMT
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- Again, this assumes knowledge of local environments that we simply do
- not have. How do we know that such a local procedure should always be
- run? How do we know that it should be run at a particular point?
-
- Sure, providing a hook to run a site-supplied procedure is probably
- good enough for a lot of sites. But it fails to address the entire problem,
- which can only be addressed by having the site-supplied procedure run
- PMDF_STARTUP only when it is good and ready, and then by having it
- do whatever needs doing once PMDF_STARTUP is complete (most importantly
- it can handle errors that PMDF_STARTUP returns in whatever fashion is
- appropriate).
-
- In other words, your proposal is considerably less flexible than providing
- no hook at all. Why should we provide a mechanism with narrow flexibility
- when no mechanism at all is considerably better?
-
- Ned
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