Proper way to autoload modules (/etc/rc.modules)?

[Peter Jones]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 20:11 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:06:00AM -0400, pjones wrote:
> > For things that don't present devices, that's a different story, but in
> > general I think they have less need to be dropped into place by non-Core
> > packages.  Unfortunately, that's not "no need", but I don't know that
> > it's enough to justify adding such a broad, generic mechanism.
> 
> So, what are the disadvantages of doing so?

Additional unexpected complication when something goes wrong?
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        Peter