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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.
}