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To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
cc: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine),
        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/root dot.Xdefaults dot.fvwmrc dot.xsession dot.cshrc dot.login 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Nov 1995 19:02:11 PST."
             <199512010302.TAA03907@precipice.shockwave.com> 
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 19:30:25 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Root is used for "standalone startup" once -- when you bring the system
> up.  It's much more important to have root be minimalistic so that when all
> hell breaks loose (like you've shat over one of your partitions) you can get
> in and working.  Root should ideally not touch or require anything in /usr,

But there's nothing I've done so far that would preclude that?  It's
only meaningful *if* you start an X server.

						Jordan