From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 28 14:24:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA26178 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:24:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (wck-ca6-01.ix.netcom.com [199.35.213.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA26121 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:23:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.7/8.6.9) id OAA07208; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:23:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:23:56 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199710282223.OAA07208@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: /compat -> /usr/local/compat From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is a final call for opinions. I will move /compat to ${PREFIX}/compat (basically /usr/local/compat) in a couple of days if nobody objects. Satoshi ------- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 16:32:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Satoshi Asami Cc: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: /: file system is full Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 11:59:37PM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * The other alternative is, of course, to recommend a 45 MB root slice. > * There's nothing so holy about /compat that it *should* be in the root > * slice, but I don't like gratuituous symlinks either. I'm copying > > IIRC, someone mentioned that /compat might be needed at startup before > mounting anything, and that is the reason why it is in /. Sure, that's the classical reason for putting something in /. But I can't see that we're going to need Linux programs before /usr is mounted. > OTOH, this question seems to come up quite often and is quite a thorn > on our collective sides. I would love to see it moved to > ${PREFIX}/compat (where I suspect it lives on most people's machines > anyway) if that is only a case of vast minority. The worst problem I could see with that would be the transition. I'm copying -hackers; what do you guys think? (Ducks until Jordan's answer has died down :-) Greg