Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:12:24 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: ports@freebsd.ORG, imp@village.org Subject: Re: Need a quick review of some bsd.port.mk changes Message-ID: <8687.851361144@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Dec 1996 11:06:13 %2B0100." <199612231006.LAA02493@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> Our tar is also statically linked, but still resides in /usr/bin > nevertheless. We apparently don't expect people to use a poorly > designed tool for restoring their filesystems, in case /usr is > gone. :-) This is the only case where I thought we might want to change ourselves, but I shudder to think of all those shell scripts which invoke /usr/bin/tar directly (and I've seen quite a few). It'd be like moving cat to /sbin - much of the world would break without a /bin/cat, the location has been hardcoded in people's brains for so long. :-) Jordan
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