From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 14 11:42:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07100 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:42:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07092; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:42:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26592; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:40:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Mike Smith cc: Garrett Wollman , 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 08:46:59 PDT." <199810141546.IAA00919@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:40:54 -0700 Message-ID: <26589.908390454@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message