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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:48:57 -0500
From:      Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed
Message-ID:  <20001108214857.A9165@electricjellyfish.net>
In-Reply-To: <200011090155.SAA35024@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:55:29PM -0700
References:  <200011090155.SAA35024@harmony.village.org>

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On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:55:29PM -0700, Warner Losh 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

BIN_SBIN_SHARED ?

simple, to the point, and short.

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