From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 22:08:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 597AC106564A for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:08:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B793314EF34; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EBC4B6E.4060607@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:08:46 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111110 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ed Schouten References: <20111110123919.GF2164@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20111110123919.GF2164@hoeg.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The strangeness called `sbin' X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:08:47 -0000 On 11/10/2011 04:39, Ed Schouten wrote: > I suspect this email could be one of the last emails I'm sending before > one of you hire an assassin to get rid of me, but here it goes. Au contraire, I think your work on improving the general quality of our code has earned you many many brownie points, so you're far from being run out of town on a rail. :) This particular proposal though I personally am confused about, and I apologize if I missed something obvious, but what is the value of making this change? I've read the thread so far, and I understand that the hysterical raisins that prompted the creation of sbin may or may not still apply, but I haven't yet understood what we would gain by moving everything. Sorry if I'm being dense, Doug -- "We could put the whole Internet into a book." "Too practical." Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/