From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Mar 11 8:40:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B645037B405 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:40:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with UUCP id g2BGeGA93090; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:40:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.1.10]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2BGbwEL048633; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:37:58 +0100 (CET)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2BGbtN06745; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:37:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:37:54 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Paul Richards Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving MAKEDEV + MAKEDEV.local to /etc Message-ID: <20020311163754.GJ4295@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <20020311074612.GB63125@elvis.mu.org> <94602.1015833169@critter.freebsd.dk> <20020311081121.GC63125@elvis.mu.org> <1015848384.61331.1.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1015848384.61331.1.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:06:23PM +0000, Paul Richards wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 08:11, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Poul-Henning Kamp [020310 23:53] wrote: > > > In message <20020311074612.GB63125@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > > > > > > > >No problem, but wouldn't it be quite evil for devfs to fake a symlink > > > >to it? :) > > > > > > What good would it be if you have DEVF mounted ? > > > > Stupid head cold.. bleh. Yeah, thanks. :) > > I think /usr/share/ would be a better place, since this is a file that's > really going away in future releases and I don't think cluttering /etc > with it, just to keep it around for reference, is sensible. /usr/share should be platform independend - MAKEDEV is not. Plus /usr/share is possibly on a different partition. I personaly would prefer /sbin as its more an executeable than a config file, but /etc is also OK for me. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message