Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:37:54 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving MAKEDEV + MAKEDEV.local to /etc Message-ID: <20020311163754.GJ4295@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <1015848384.61331.1.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com> References: <20020311074612.GB63125@elvis.mu.org> <94602.1015833169@critter.freebsd.dk> <20020311081121.GC63125@elvis.mu.org> <1015848384.61331.1.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com>
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:06:23PM +0000, Paul Richards wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 08:11, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [020310 23:53] wrote: > > > In message <20020311074612.GB63125@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > > > > > > > >No problem, but wouldn't it be quite evil for devfs to fake a symlink > > > >to it? :) > > > > > > What good would it be if you have DEVF mounted ? > > > > Stupid head cold.. bleh. Yeah, thanks. :) > > I think /usr/share/ would be a better place, since this is a file that's > really going away in future releases and I don't think cluttering /etc > with it, just to keep it around for reference, is sensible. /usr/share should be platform independend - MAKEDEV is not. Plus /usr/share is possibly on a different partition. I personaly would prefer /sbin as its more an executeable than a config file, but /etc is also OK for me. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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