Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 09:16:17 +1000 From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist Message-ID: <199706042316.JAA16937@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jun 1997 02:49:12 %2B0400." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970605024737.3023C-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net>
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> > Erm, they are always directories in releases. I'm not sure > > where this is configured for releases, but it is option > > SHARED=copies in include/Makefile. > > Do we really need them as directories? Yes. it's kind of nice to be able to build your hello world program and ports on a newly installed FreeBSD box without having to also install kernel sources. Otherwise, we should leave installation of the entire compiler kit out unless /sys is also installed (which is actually pretty typical of any Linux installation, and I hated it there too). None of this may be obvious to the end-user, which is why it should remain as it is. Personally, I don't much like mtree following symlinks, but I guess I don't really get a vote. :-) This is one case where you really don't want to do so, so I guess some extension to the mtree format or a command line switch (less flexible here) would be necessary to take care of these special cases where you don't want to follow them. Regards, David David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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