Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:48:39 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed Message-ID: <20001108184838.L5112@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200011090155.SAA35024@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:55:29PM -0700 References: <200011090155.SAA35024@harmony.village.org>
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* Warner Losh <imp@village.org> [001108 17:55] wrote: > > I have a patch that makes /bin and /sbin optionally non-static. For > small systems that have / and /usr on the same file system, you can > save about 5M-6M of disk space by making /bin and /sbin shared. > > Since this is undesirable for systems that have / and /usr on > different file systems, I thought I'd make an option. > > What should I call the option? > > I'm thinking SLASHED_SHARED, but that's a horrible name. > > I've already rejected DANGEROUS_SBIN_BIN_SHARED_OPTION as being too > long I was going to say "DYNAMIC_BINARIES" but that sounds too much like a staurday morning cartoon show... how about DYNAMIC_BIN_SBIN? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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