From owner-cvs-ports Fri May 5 11:39:06 1995 Return-Path: cvs-ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA06261 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Fri, 5 May 1995 11:39:06 -0700 Received: from precipice.shockwave.com (precipice.shockwave.com [171.69.108.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA06251 ; Fri, 5 May 1995 11:38:58 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by precipice.shockwave.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA01898; Fri, 5 May 1995 11:36:58 -0700 Message-Id: <199505051836.LAA01898@precipice.shockwave.com> To: Adam David cc: ache@astral.msk.su, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-ports@freefall.cdrom.com, torstenb@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/news/inn/pkg PLIST In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 May 1995 18:24:26 -0000." <199505051824.SAA20758@veda.is> Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 11:36:58 -0700 From: Paul Traina Sender: cvs-ports-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Let me rephrase this. What does renaming /var/spool/news to /var/news fix? Are we just doing it to follow our OWN convention? /usr/spool/news was broken because /usr/spool was stupid for diskless machines /usr/spool/mail was broken because /usr/spool was stupid for diskless machines /var/spool/mail was NOT broken /var/spool/news is NOT broken /var/mail is stupid, but it was done in the 4.4 distribution, so we leave it as is because most programs will look there these days when auto-configuring /var/news is stupid, we're doing it ourselves, we'll have to fix every piece of news related software that looks for /var/spool/news and we're just making porting and maintenance that much more of a pain. Again, what are we fixing? We need to look at the cost benefit ratio of making gratuitous changes. Why are we trying to make FreeBSD = !BSD? If I wanted to run !BSD, I'd run Linux (vomit). From: Adam David Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/news/inn/pkg PLIST > Is /var/spool/news broken? It's really a convention better left unchanged. It is as broken as /var/spool/mail, which is also a convention. :) -- Adam David