From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Dec 14 7:10: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gateg.kw.bbc.co.uk (gateg.kw.bbc.co.uk [132.185.132.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABB737B416 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 07:10:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sunf0.rd.bbc.co.uk (ddmailgate.rd.bbc.co.uk [132.185.128.104]) by gateg.kw.bbc.co.uk (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id fBEF9rh17374; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:09:53 GMT Received: from inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk by sunf0.rd.bbc.co.uk; Fri, 14 Dec 01 15:09:52 GMT Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:09:50 +0000 From: Jonathan Perkin To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing 'man' to check alternate destination for 'cat' pages Message-Id: <20011214150950.A12728@inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk> References: <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20011213101401.C77774@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:21:25AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri Dec 14, 2001 at 12:21:25AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Someone else then mentioned that if /usr *is* a part of '/', then we > don't have to statically-build all the binaries in /bin or /sbin. It > was noted that this saves several megabytes in the size of the system, > and that such savings are welcome in some situations (embedded systems, > older machines, etc). As long as this isn't made the default. It's lovely to be free to be able to rm -rf /usr/{bin|sbin|lib*} etc and still have all the tools in /bin and /sbin available for recovery purposes. -- Jonathan Perkin - BBC Internet Services - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message