Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:58:06 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue Message-ID: <20030725205806.GB39268@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030724120652.B33961@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20030719171138.GA86442@dragon.nuxi.com> <XFMail.20030721151553.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030721202314.GC21068@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpn0f76i69.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20030722151138.GB72888@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030722153056.GM863@starjuice.net> <20030723002531.GA44452@kokeb.ambesa.net> <20030724185933.GC85582@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030724120652.B33961@xorpc.icir.org>
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:06:52PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:59:33AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:25:32PM -0400, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> ...
> > > base system. IMO, /rescue should be the absolute essentials _only_.
> > > Instead of theorizing reasons why someone might need ipfw and friends,
> > > why don't we wait until we get a bug report about a specific situation
> > > in which it was needed before we put it back in.
> >
> > Thank you for expressing this so well. I do think we should wait for
> > PR's telling real experiences rather than theorizing so much in the "what
> > if"'s.
>
> then just nuke everything from /rescue and waif for PR's... :)
{\sarcasm
Or just go back to /[s]bin being statically linked and create
/[s]bin.dynamic and those that want that can put it first in their
path.
}
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