From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 23 09:06:21 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA14811 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 09:06:21 -0800 Received: from glueserv1.umd.edu (glueserv1.umd.edu [129.2.70.69]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA14803; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 09:06:15 -0800 Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by glueserv1.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id MAA07814; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 12:03:53 -0500 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id MAA12129; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 12:03:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 12:03:51 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , Bruce Evans , me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com, nate@trout.sri.mt.net, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Make World Times and a question about shared libs / make all In-Reply-To: <13688.795976394@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Mar 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Would people think it gross if /usr/include was nothing but > > a directory tree full of symbolic links into /usr/src (or > > where ever you did the ``make INCLUDE_TYPES=symlink includes'' from). > > No, that would actually be more (he ducks) ORTHOGONAL! :-) > > Seriously. Then you at least have a tree of links or a tree of copies > but never a mix (you may recall me raving on this particular topic > awhile back) and it's at least a whole lot easier to _understand_. > > Yes! Please! > > Jordan > How would that work for folks who don't want to keep an entire source tree available? I have the room, myself, but lots of friends running FreeBSD are doing it in 200-300 meg partitions. Would this hurt them? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------