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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist
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>I think that's also a good idea but, as I said in my other mail, I
>think the true evil here that we have SHARED=copies on systems which
>have simply installed a bin dist and we have SHARED=symlinks as the
>default in /usr/src/include/Makefile so that anyone building the world
>suddenly diverges from the path.
>
>I can also see where the original designers may have thought this a
>very clever, space-saving idea but it's also Deeply Wrong and should
>die now. :-)

You have this backwards :-).  SHARED=copies is a hack to avoid
dependencies on /usr/src/*sys.  This no longer saves a significant
amount of space.  Symlinks are fundamentally broken when there are
multiple source trees installed, but less so than /usr/include itself.

Bruce