Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:46:59 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Robert Nordier <rnordier@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 Makefile Message-ID: <199810141546.IAA00919@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:35:02 EDT." <199810141535.LAA12840@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> <<On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:19:15 -0700, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> said:
>
> > /usr/mdec is the wrong location. Nothing belongs there, and the
> > directory itself should be removed.
>
> Hello?!
>
> /usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications
> mdec/ boot programs; see disklabel(8)
>
> I'd say something definitely DOES belong there -- the boot programs
> installed by disklabel(8).
The directory is a wart. It may be an historic wart, but it's still a
wart. Every other collection of application-specific data is collected
elsewhere. The existence of /usr/mdec causes not inconsiderable
confusion ("why there?" "what does 'mdec' mean?").
Boot programs that are read out of the filesystem belong in /boot.
Binary information that's used by disklabel belongs in /usr/libdata,
unless you want it on / for repair purposes, when /boot is a more
sensible place.
> Not everybody mangles their disks with sysinstall, you know.
I never suggested they did. I tend to use disklabel myself.
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