From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 10 22:55:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA09652 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:55:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA09646 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:55:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Spinner) with ESMTP id OAA08875; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:40:32 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199811110640.OAA08875@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:17:20 PST." <9326.910765040@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:40:32 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > I can see we are simply of two minds on this issue. :) What do some of > the others think? Oh, one other thing.. I don't care enough about this to argue about it (for long :-). Don't interpret my objections as an implied "over my dead body" kinda thing. I just want to point out that /usr/mdec has worked quite well for *years*, it's a known quantity, and that *I* believe that taking up precious root disk space by shoving unneeded stuff in /boot (which is critical to system bootup) is going in exactly the wrong direction and gains so little (or no) benefit. Yes, "mdec" is a wierd name. So is "/etc/rc", "creat(2)", "dd", "pax", "vi", etc etc. Incidently, my objections are about putting it in /, not so much changing the name. > - Jordan Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message