Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 05:39:44 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: since this csh issue seems to be such a hot potato... Message-ID: <20000417053944.A83827@mppsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <70728.955927950@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 04:32:30PM -0700 References: <70728.955927950@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 04:32:30PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > What I propose is that we simply decide to finish the process and move > on: > > 1. Fix the tcsh build so that it creates a symlink to /bin/csh How about a knob to turn that off? If I really want to use csh from ports, I don't want every "make world" creating a symlink so that I can't type "csh" and get the old shell (see the next statement). I also don't like the fact that the 44bsd-csh port installs itself as "44bsd-csh", and not /usr/local/bin/csh (or at least a symlink with /usr/local/bin/csh -> /usr/local/bin/44bsd-csh). If it comes down to it and I want *csh*, I want to be able to type "csh" and get the old shell. > 2. Remove the csh sources from -current. They are now redundant. > > Then root's shell is tcsh and at least a non-zero number of people are > happy. As someone who squawked when this first came up, I can live with the change, but I would like my two points above addressed somehow. Hmm. To get off-topic somewhat, maybe we should support some kind of /usr/src/local/Makefile.post-buildworld makefile/script that would be executed after a "buildworld" to "clean" things up a little bit to suit that particular site. E.g. blast away symlinks that aren't wanted, or remove utilities that are not needed/wanted, or change permissions (A number of people remove suid bits on a number of programs in the default installation). I also did make tcsh my default shell (like I said I would) just to see if I saw any differences, but about all I've had time to do the past few weeks is login and read my e-mail :-(, so I can't complain too much about all of this. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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