Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:40:54 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, 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: <26589.908390454@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:46:59 PDT." <199810141546.IAA00919@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> 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?").
I have to agree. /usr/mdec is not only ill-named, but in the wrong
place. Let's say we're talking about a 3-stage boot here now and it
goes naturally into /usr/mdec, right? Wrong, since /usr isn't even
mounted yet. Oh, so that should go into /boot then? And boot1 and
boot2 should still go into /usr/mdec? That makes no sense at all
and if Garrett really thinks this through, he'll see that.
/usr/mdec needs to die. As Mike says, it's a wart.
- Jordan
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