Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 14:17:16 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c Message-ID: <199907052117.OAA14669@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:57:24 %2B0200." <199907052057.WAA55841@freebsd.dk>
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> > > I think the main point was that you made the change w/o asking. This > > > issue has been desided in the past. > > > > I've been discussing this with Mike and the outcome was that it was better > > to return Linux. > > Erhm, although mike is a sharp guy, you should not listen to much > to him :), no, really, you should have asked a wider audience, maybe > not hackers (to much religion there) but at least a handfull of > people and involving a couble of -core members wouldn't hurt either... > > But for this time, leave it be, the few points we could score by > sending FreeBSD rather than Linux isn't going to save our ass > anyhow, so.... I actually get the pointy hat for this; I thought the discussion that Marcel and I had was copied to -emulation. Checking my archives proved me wrong on that; so mea culpa. I thought we'd already been over this and hashed it all out, wheras we hadn't. Basically, if we're going to be "compatible", we need to consider that as an absolute; tweaking website stats (not necessarily a bad thing) is something that's nice but not worth sacrificing the accuracy of our compatability for. Right off the top of my head, not returning "Linux" breaks everything that uses RPM and every "portable" shell script that we don't actively patch. The issue with RPM really becomes significant since Marcel's work commits us to looking as much like RedHat as possible (for better or worse), and this means that RPM has to work "just so". Again, my apologies that this context wasn't available before the commit. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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