Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 11:35:37 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can the disklabel(8) link go now? Message-ID: <15731.1086341737@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jun 2004 03:30:55 MDT." <40C0414F.4040108@freebsd.org>
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In message <40C0414F.4040108@freebsd.org>, Scott Long writes: >My vote is 'not right now'. disklabel is a very fundamental command >to BSD, so if you intend to remove it then I suggest that you do the >following: > >1. Mark it as 'deprecated' everywhere. All documentation, manual >pages, etc. If you can make it so that an invocation of 'disklabel' >prints out a deprecation warning, that would be good also. >2. After 5-STABLE branches, remove it from HEAD. >3. Leave it in 5-STABLE until EOL. I thought the idea was to make disklabel(8) print out a helpful text pointing out the right tools for the current platform ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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