Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 15:06:53 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist Message-ID: <199606222206.PAA22895@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199606222151.QAA02311@compound.Think.COM> from "Tony Kimball" at Jun 22, 96 04:51:54 pm
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> Man pages are another component which I do not deem to be part of the > base OS. One can install FreeBSD just dandy without man pages. I gotta agree with this; I'd like to see the label-based CDROM approach to man pages -- just like Microsoft's "Books Online" for their devsys. If you have the ROM in, you get the man pages (as an optional install). > (There is one problem: makewhatis is run by cron whether the man > component is installed or not. That should be fixed, as it is > trivial.) All the makefiles should be fixed, especially the libkvm dependencies. > Games is another. Definitely. Do the CDROM thing there, too. 8-). > DES is another. This is questionable because of DES availability. Certainly, it is not installed by default unless you ask for it. > Perl does not belong in the BIN distribution. Perl is properly part > of an administrative tools and scripting add-on just as optional as > man pages. I'd go further; /bin/sh is evil, as are any other scripting systems where it's possible to have the data embedded in the script instead of operated on by a tool. The only reason I don't call for its removal is that the installation and the system startup (incorrectly) depend on it, and /bin/csh is more evil. As the default system shell, it has to be there, but that makes it no less annoying. Look at the /etc/rc* mess that /bin/sh has gotten us into because it was more convenient than Doing Things The Right Way. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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