From owner-cvs-etc Wed Jun 4 17:40:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA19375 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 17:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA19350; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 17:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA19374; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 10:09:44 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706050039.KAA19374@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist In-Reply-To: <9456.865466424@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 4, 97 04:20:24 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 10:09:44 +0930 (CST) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, ache@nagual.pp.ru, bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > At any rate, I suggest you back out the change and ask Jordan for > > review. This is clearly his region as it concerns the release and not > > only "make world". > > I'd like to argue for the introduction of SHARED=copies as the > hard-wired behavior. If we're ever to create a more compartmentalized > system, as everyone is ranting for, then we need to decouple things > like "bin" and "src". Wasn't the whole idea behind this linking stuff to keep the etc files theoretically in sync with the current kernel so that rebuilding kernel-dependant tools was relatively straightforward? Is this still substantively an issue? > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[