Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 20:50:16 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami), regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports for X11 stuff Message-ID: <5721.888900616@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 20:44:13 PST." <199803030444.UAA15161@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> It's quite achievable; the question is (as Jordan asked) whether it's > going to surprise people that *expect* it to be in /usr. I think attempting to move things to their own partitions in an attempt to outsmart the user also only misses the point. The *real* nut in need of cracking here is to simply supply enough sizing information that /usr or any other partition becomes as big (either as an advisory or as the default behavior for "auto" layout) as its contents merit. In other words, this problem does NOT call for a special case, it calls for the general case (of sizing any partition) being made more robust. :) Mike & I will be talking about this a fair bit before 2.2.6 comes out in an attempt to arrive at a workable solution. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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