Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:32:26 -0800 From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal Message-ID: <p05200f03b9f706009d91@[192.168.254.205]> In-Reply-To: <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org> References: <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org>
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My spouse had the problem of creating a bootable copy of A/UX on a single floppy. She decided to write a "doitall" program that had functionality from a number of small commands. This amortized the overhead a great deal. A similar approach could be used for /(s)bin: lump several programs together into a single binary, but give the binary links for each of the original names (and have the program respond according to the name used, ala vi/ex). My general reaction, however, is that this issue (shrinking sbin) is not worth trashing the software engineering of piles of commands. -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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