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Date:      Thu, 5 Jun 1997 10:09:44 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist
Message-ID:  <199706050039.KAA19374@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <9456.865466424@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 4, 97 04:20:24 pm"

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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 <sys/*>
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

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