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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 1995 12:03:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, 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 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950323120227.11921A-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <13688.795976394@freefall.cdrom.com>

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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?

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