From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 24 11:40: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F5137B420 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 11:35:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with UUCP id fAOJZTV78573; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:35:29 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAOJ5AN55471; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:05:10 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <200111241905.fAOJ5AN55471@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Michael Lucas Cc: setantae , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the point in joy(8) ? References: <20011119131656.A92804@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20011119131656.A92804@blackhelicopters.org> ; from Michael Lucas "Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:16:57 EST." Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:05:09 +0000 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG These things are gone in CURRENT. They remain in STABLE so as not to yank the rug out from under folks' feet. M > I suspect that this is somewhat like the existence of /usr/sbin/linux > and linux(8). > > You might check the mailing list archives for a discussion some time > ago about the merits of this sort of thing. IIRC, such a discussion > consumed copious bandwidth some time ago. (Sorry, I don't remember > when... been reading FreeBSD mail for about six years now, and am > getting a little fuzzy on names and dates and suchforth.) > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:37:40PM +0000, setantae wrote: > > > > Is there any point whatsoever in joy(8) and it's manpage existing ? > > > > They're not even referenced by the manpage for joy(4). > > > > For those who don't know what I'm on about, /usr/bin/joy is a shell > > script consisting of the shebang line, the CVS tag line and the words > > ``kldload joy''. > > > > Can someone kill it ? > > > > (Sorry if I'm meddling in the affairs of dragons here. > > I freely admit that the only reason I don't like it is because it's > > ugly *and* unnecessary - ugly on it's own would be ok ;) > > > > Ceri > > > > -- > > keep a mild groove on > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > -- > Michael Lucas > mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org > http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ > Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- o Mark Murray \_ FreeBSD Services Limited O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message