From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 15:07:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15556 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:07:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15550 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:07:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA23271; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:04:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:04:15 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Nate Williams cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Mike Smith , obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-Reply-To: <199811112240.PAA19821@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > > > statements are flame-bait and provide no content. Moving stuff out of > > > /usr/mdec provides *NO* (!!) functionality improvement, just movement. > > > > Would you also advocate moving disklabel from /sbin to /usr/sbin > > then? If not, why not? > > Works for me! Since you can't boot w/out working boot-blocks, it makes > no sense to depend on disklabel having stuff that it can't get unless > /usr is mounted. No, you forget, there's 2 reasons to have things in /. One, they're needed for boot. Two, they qualify as emergency repair tools. Diskalbel falls into the 2nd category (note I agree with Nate's original position here). > > > Nate > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message