Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 16:26:58 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> Cc: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist Message-ID: <9524.865466818@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jun 1997 09:22:20 %2B1000." <199706042322.JAA16970@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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> I believe mtree being able to selectively not follow symlinks would be > a possible solution here. I think that's also a good idea but, as I said in my other mail, I think the true evil here that we have SHARED=copies on systems which have simply installed a bin dist and we have SHARED=symlinks as the default in /usr/src/include/Makefile so that anyone building the world suddenly diverges from the path. I can also see where the original designers may have thought this a very clever, space-saving idea but it's also Deeply Wrong and should die now. :-) Jordan
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