From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 23:03:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3F616A4CE; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:03:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (f170.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC0643D3F; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:02:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j37N2xZ7021538; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 01:02:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: David Schultz From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:25:05 EDT." <20050407222505.GA29827@VARK.MIT.EDU> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 01:02:59 +0200 Message-ID: <21537.1112914979@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: Scott Long cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 geom.4 X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:03:00 -0000 In message <20050407222505.GA29827@VARK.MIT.EDU>, David Schultz writes: >> I really think sysinstall should exit with an error message >> when people try to use it for things it cannot do. >> >> I do _not_ think we should cripple the rest of the system to cater >> for sysinstall. > >I realize that sysinstall isn't directly relevant to you and I, >but it's important to just about everyone who installs FreeBSD for >the first time, and this is group we don't want to piss off. Cool, no problem then! I'm sure that if it is important some developers will jump in and make it better. >For the author of GEOM, the breakage should be easy to fix. Why >not just fix it in the same way that you fixed fdisk over two >years ago? Because I am approaching one commit every 8 hours of the last calendar year, and I have quite frankly enough to do as it is. Sysinstall, fdisk, bsdlabel and boot0cfg are all userland programs which should be well inside the envelope of pretty much anybody who has completed K&R the first time if they want to put a bit of work into it, it doesn't have to be somebody of my caliber. And it would be great training for the next generation of kernel wizard candidates. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.