Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:27:23 -0700
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth)
Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD
Message-ID: <8491.843618443@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Sep 1996 18:30:12 CDT." <v02140b02ae6e1eda1dd5@[208.2.87.4]>
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> >Nate and others, > > would recognizing but refusing to do anything other than > >issue a warning and succeeding for install -d be acceptible? > > > >"install -d is obsolete, use mtree" > > No! I want the functionality to be there. > > See Jordan's comment about editing Makefiles. > He is saying the same thing that I am saying. Warner, I would Just Do It were I you. Sheesh, this whole thread only underscores the point I made during an earlier spate of this - the amount of debate surrounding an issue is *inversely proportional* to its actual importance. Just by way of example, I just noticed a recent failure report that NFS now panics the system when used between Solaris and FreeBSD, apparantly due to the incorrect selection of NFS v3 by default. If we see any follow-ups to that at all, I'll expect maybe one, two tops (neither of which may actually fix the problem) whereas I expect this `install -d' thread to go on over at least 5 or 6 more messages, possibly twice that many. An outright panic raises hardly an eyebrow, but an extra FLAG, well, it's a drop-everything-and-race-to-the-email crisis! :-) If that doesn't say something about sociology, I don't know what does. Jordan
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