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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.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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