From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 12:10:31 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73ACB37B404; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:10:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0BK9EW73620; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:09:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:09:14 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200101112009.f0BK9EW73620@earth.backplane.com> To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, Doug Barton , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh References: <9216.979241717@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : : : :On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:12:54 PST, Matt Dillon wrote: : :> The level of sophistication and the number of hacks is *NOT* *NECESSARY* :> when a simple, minor restructuring of /etc/rc and a tiny change to :> mount_mfs (newfs) completely solves the problem. :> :> You guys are taking a bad idea and making it worse. : :We're providing an immediate solution to a problem which is a serious :annoyance for -CURRENT developers. Furthermore, this solution is a step :closer to the end goal (read on). : :You're flying off the handle because we've replaced one file in the root :partition with several files and a directory in the root partition. : :Now read calmly... You should do it right the first time rather then make incremental commits each of which causes pain to the development community. Your incremental commits are the problem here, not the solution. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message