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Date:      Tue, 7 May 1996 00:21:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request)
Message-ID:  <199605062221.AAA07114@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605062021.WAA02813@campa.panke.de> from Wolfram Schneider at "May 6, 96 10:21:57 pm"

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As Wolfram Schneider wrote:

> >Which is as it should be.  One program per directory, thank you very
> >much.
> 
> You are very conservative. I think a directory for every script is an
> overkill.

There's also a man page, the Makefile, and perhaps the obj symlink.
Much the same as, say for /usr/src/bin/cat/.

BSD moved to the one program per directory approach with 4.3-Reno (i
believe).  They've done it deliberately, since the previous state has
apparently been a mess.  Why should we revert this again?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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