From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 7 11:18:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB5837B40A for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:18:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail9.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A003B43FDD for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:18:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 27286 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2003 18:18:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 7 Jul 2003 18:18:33 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h67IIWGI093655; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 14:18:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030707180522.GA75063@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:18:46 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" cc: Makoto Matsushita cc: "Bruce A. Mah" cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: gordon@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/include paths.h src/rescue Makefile README src/rescue/librescue Makefile src/rescue/rescue Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 18:18:40 -0000 On 07-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:25:26PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> Oh, wanh: >> 1.8M /stand > > 1.8M on crowded /'s matters. > >> This is hardly worth whining over. /rescue and /stand have different >> purposes and you just can't get over that since you are so used to >> abusing /stand as a /rescue equivalent and can't understand that /stand >> has other purposes besides that. > > Oh please educate me! You keep saying that /stand has a post-install > use, but you won't say what it is. Please do. If you use some rather fancy installation scripts like I do here, then the installation scripts leave files around in /stand containing the results of user's selection of hand-crafted dialog boxes which can be useful later in scripts that care about which of a set of "personalities" a machine was installed as. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/