From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 21 13:28:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA09278 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:28:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ox.ismi.net (root@ox.ismi.net [206.31.56.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA09207; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aerosmith.dyn.ml.org (mrr@pm2-27.ismi.net [206.31.56.67]) by ox.ismi.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA03449; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:39:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:36:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael R. Rudel" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Michael Smith , bde@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot.foo madness In-Reply-To: <28688.869506407@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I made my position clear some time back; while the bootstrap continues > > to preferentially read ufs filesystems, all the boot-time components > > should be in a separate directory. If we assume that this is /boot, > > then there would be no pain at all in updating /boot/help.default etc. > > when /usr/mdec was updated. > > Hmmm. It's a slightly divergent topic, but I guess I should also say > that I favor putting these new foo.config files into a /boot > subdirectory here and now before they get doc'd in too many places. > I think too many new files have gone into / at this point. > > Jordan > Speaking of too many files in /, I don't like that when you install a new system, it puts (if you don't mail/etc/blah the survey) new-registration in /. Just seems kind of kludgy to me. ;) A better place, IMO, would be something like /usr. -- Michael R. Rudel -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- mrr@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org FreeBSD aerosmith.dyn.ml.org 3.0-CURRENT PGP Key Block: finger mrrpgp@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org