Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:18:46 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/include paths.h src/rescue Makefile README src/rescue/librescue Makefile src/rescue/rescue Makefile Message-ID: <XFMail.20030707141846.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030707180522.GA75063@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 07-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:25:26PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> Oh, wanh: >> 1.8M /stand > > 1.8M on crowded /'s matters. > >> This is hardly worth whining over. /rescue and /stand have different >> purposes and you just can't get over that since you are so used to >> abusing /stand as a /rescue equivalent and can't understand that /stand >> has other purposes besides that. > > Oh please educate me! You keep saying that /stand has a post-install > use, but you won't say what it is. Please do. If you use some rather fancy installation scripts like I do here, then the installation scripts leave files around in /stand containing the results of user's selection of hand-crafted dialog boxes which can be useful later in scripts that care about which of a set of "personalities" a machine was installed as. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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