From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 6 15:44:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA14907 for current-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 15:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA14881 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 15:44:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA18452 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 00:44:20 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA09113 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 7 May 1996 00:44:19 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id AAA07114 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 7 May 1996 00:21:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605062221.AAA07114@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 00:21:55 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605062021.WAA02813@campa.panke.de> from Wolfram Schneider at "May 6, 96 10:21:57 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Wolfram Schneider wrote: > >Which is as it should be. One program per directory, thank you very > >much. > > You are very conservative. I think a directory for every script is an > overkill. There's also a man page, the Makefile, and perhaps the obj symlink. Much the same as, say for /usr/src/bin/cat/. BSD moved to the one program per directory approach with 4.3-Reno (i believe). They've done it deliberately, since the previous state has apparently been a mess. Why should we revert this again? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)