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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD 
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:30:16 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199609241512.JAA06843@rocky.mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes:
: Doesn't GNU-install support '-d'?  If so, the functionality is already
: available.

Are you saying "gnu-install does it, just use that" or "gnu-install
does it, so there is more precident?"  If the former, then I'd just
build NetBSD's install, since it supports it and the FreeBSD -C
extention.  If the latter, then I'll go ahead and commit the -d dir
chnages :-).

Why is there so much resistance to 10 lines of code already integrated
and tested in NetBSD and OpenBSD?  I'd really like to see a gradual
merging of the code bases where appropriate.  This sounds to me like a
no brainer: No one is using -d on FreeBSD (now that -d -> -D) and
other BSDs (NetBSD, OpenBSD and SunOS) have it as well as it being in
SysV's /usr/ucb/install.  So there is precidents for inclusion.

Sorry to sound a little frustrated, but the grabbing the code from
NetBSD, putting it into FreeBSD's install and testing it took less
time than I've spent writing email on this topic.

Warner