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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 18:19:38 -0700
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>> Wasn't the whole idea behind this linking stuff to keep the <sys/*>
>> etc files theoretically in sync with the current kernel so that
>> rebuilding kernel-dependant tools was relatively straightforward?
>
>Yes, it was.  However, I think that syncronization is an admirable
>goal which would nonetheless be better achieved in other ways. :)

   The fact that the sys include files are duplicated in /usr/include is the
problem. They shouldn't be there - there probably shouldn't be any symlinks,
either, but those are probably better than trying to fix it up in cpp. The
kernel include files belong in the /sys tree and nowhere else.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project