From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 12 11:32:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF3737B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:32:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-172-174.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.172.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5525643E4A for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:32:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Received: from [192.168.254.205] ([192.168.254.205]) by cfcl.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gACJX3p94733 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:33:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org> References: <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org> X-Mailer: Eudora for Macintosh! Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:32:26 -0800 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Rich Morin Subject: Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My spouse had the problem of creating a bootable copy of A/UX on a single floppy. She decided to write a "doitall" program that had functionality from a number of small commands. This amortized the overhead a great deal. A similar approach could be used for /(s)bin: lump several programs together into a single binary, but give the binary links for each of the original names (and have the program respond according to the name used, ala vi/ex). My general reaction, however, is that this issue (shrinking sbin) is not worth trashing the software engineering of piles of commands. -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message