From owner-cvs-etc Thu Jun 5 05:42:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA11231 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 05:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA11204; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 05:41:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA25520; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:38:08 +0100 (BST) Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:41:01 +0100 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (tees.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.60]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA02709; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:40:55 +0100 (BST) Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA02128; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:40:54 +0100 (BST) To: dg@root.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= , Satoshi Asami , bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist References: <199706050114.SAA28344@implode.root.com> From: Paul Richards Date: 05 Jun 1997 13:40:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: David Greenman's message of Wed, 04 Jun 1997 18:14:34 -0700 Message-ID: <57bu5li5nu.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.37/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Greenman writes: > Well, I disagree with you, Jordan. I think we should make the kernel > sources a mandatory part of the system and /usr/include/sys should be a > symlink. Why ? I don't see any reason why kernel sources (or any sources) should be mandatory. I agree with Jordan that the sources (or includes in this specific case) should be detached from the installed system. -- Dr Paul Richards. [p.richards@elsevier.co.uk] Originative Solutions Ltd. [paul@originat.demon.co.uk] Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155 (Elsevier)