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Date:      Wed, 04 Jun 1997 16:41:04 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist 
Message-ID:  <9647.865467664@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jun 1997 03:29:35 %2B0400." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970605032630.3370C-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net> 

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> I see most unpleasant case with current method is potential /sys &
> /usr/include files mispatch (in case someone bump kernel file limit f.e.) 
> and possible missing availability of some kernel deeper level directories
> from user program, I suggest to keep symlinks as they are in source case

I knew that you'd make this exact argument, and it's unfortunately
bogus. :-)

Updating your include files, both directly in /usr/include and in its
subdirectories, is just plain something you should do if you're
dinking around with sources and building your own kernels and such.  I
feel very strongly about that, so strongly that I'll go even further
in saying that people who mismatch their /sys and /usr/include
directories deserve to lose and that adding an architectural wart like
this to try and save them from themselves only bites us in far worse
ways than it helps us.  It is the WRONG solution now, it was the WRONG
solution when we inheirited it and now it needs to DIE DIE DIE.

Sorry for the extra dose of vehemence, Andrey, but this crock has been
so much like a low-grade toothache for me throughout the years that I
basically just got used to it and was ignoring it until you guys
called attention to it again.  Now I'm wondering WTF is wrong with me
that I've lived with it for so long without just going to see a
dentist to have that sucker yanked out. ;-)

					Jordan



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