Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 21:11:53 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving manpages out of /sys/modules Message-ID: <XFMail.001005211153.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200010060348.e963mwh04217@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On 06-Oct-00 Mike Smith wrote: >> > I've asked for a repo copy of the scripts. Sheldon is dealing with the >> > manpages. I've asked for the shell scripts to go into usr.sbin as these >> > really aren't general user commands. >> >> Sounds good to me. Although, I really agree with Bruce's sentiment >> to just axe the things. 'joy' is very worthless since you can already >> do 'kdload joy', or add 'joy_load="YES"' to /boot/loader.conf. Also, >> 'linux', 'osf1', etc. are also rather useless since we have >> 'linux_compat', 'osf1_compat' knobs in rc.conf already. I'd vote to >> just kill the trivial scripts and just keep the manpages. > > 'linux' at least is nontrivial, since it updates the Linux dynamic linker > cache. 'osf1' may do the same thing (although I have not checked). Does 'compat_linux' do this as well in /etc/rc*? However, that is a more convincing argument to keep 'linux' at least. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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