From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 16:01:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789B1106566C for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:01:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CBEA8FC08 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.magehandbook.com (mail.darkmindweb.com [192.168.1.100]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0EA3A8D for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:01:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 152.121.16.253 (SquirrelMail authenticated user daniel) by www.magehandbook.com with HTTP; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:01:36 -0400 Message-ID: <787be598ce39be54d3cb551e1336f380.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <4E7C885F.10100@a1poweruser.com> References: <4E7BEA42.4020004@a1poweruser.com> <4E7C4188.2050508@freebsd.org> <4E7C885F.10100@a1poweruser.com> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:01:36 -0400 From: "Daniel Staal" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:01:38 -0000 On Fri, September 23, 2011 9:23 am, Fbsd8 wrote: > These 2 statements should be added at the end of bsdinstall/auto to > complete the clean up of the install process. > > rm /usr/sbin/bsdinstall > rm -rf /usr/libexec/bsdinstall > > Another benefit of doing this is it will no longer be necessary to > create man pages for bsdinstall. On the other hand, that makes it harder for someone to look at the program to see what it does, in order to build or rebuild their own installer, or to customize the actions of this one. I don't see a cost to keeping the program around. There are probably some slight use cases for it, and there are some slight costs to removing it. It doesn't have to be everything to everybody: It can be itself, nothing more and nothing less. I guess I just don't see the problem with keeping it. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------