From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 24 13:57:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA26679 for current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:57:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA26616 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eel.dataplex.net by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA03307 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:57:31 -0700 Received: from [208.2.87.4] (cod [208.2.87.4]) by eel.dataplex.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA27315; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:54:02 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: rkw@eel.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:54:00 -0500 To: Warner Losh From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD Cc: Nate Williams , current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >While it does encourage a mildly bad programming habit, NetBSD does >include it. It is a needless difference between the two systems and >should be corrected, imho. It accomplishes the greater goal of >converging the divergent BSD branches a tiny bit, which is also a >generally good thing, imho. Here I have to agree with Warner. It is better to support the option and maintain consistancy across implementations. Otherwise, I would argue that we should delete our version in its entirety and use one of the other versions. Besides, there is a very good reason to have the option. When you are bootstrapping, you don't care about "doing it right", but simply "getting it done". The fewer tools required, the better. But then what should we expect from the "there is only one OS, which runs on only one CPU, and is used by only one user" crowd?