From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 14 08:44:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08653 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:44:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08644; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:44:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00919; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:46:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810141546.IAA00919@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Garrett Wollman cc: Mike Smith , Peter Wemm , Robert Nordier , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 Makefile In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:35:02 EDT." <199810141535.LAA12840@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:46:59 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > < 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message