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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc
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> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Brad Davis <brd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Author: brd
> > Date: Mon Jun  4 15:17:24 2018
> > New Revision: 334617
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/334617
> >
> > Log:
> >   Move /sys symlink creating out of etc/Makefile.
> >
> >   This is prep for etc/Makefile going away.
> >
> >   Approved by:  bapt (mentor)
> >
> 
> Woah, woah, woah, woah. =) May I ask what your plan for etc/Makefile
> is? Some of the NO_ROOT stuff there seems to be terribly broken and
> needs to be fixed; this was on my 'some day to fix' list.

Yes please, much more information here.  I use some of the targets
in src/etc/Makefile such as distribution:

I believe there are also other external consumers of this.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org