On Jul 25, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote: > My main rationale is that its init script offers offers a fairly clean and > obvious way for users to set values in /sys at boot time. (Without the > need for them to hack a local init script.) echo looks clean and obvious to me as well, and does not require 180 KB of new packages. > IMO it is much easier to find functionality like this if it is already > present on the system than if you have to search for it. And it seems to > me basic enough that it warrants inclusion in base, especially as > equivalent functionality for /proc/sys already is. This may be at most an argument for promoting the package to optional or even standard priority, but base packages should have much stricter criteria for inclusion. /sbin/sysctl is 9 KB and parts of procps. -- ciao, Marco
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