Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 15:46:16 -0500
From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth)
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD
Message-ID: <v02140b07ae6b5442833b@[208.2.87.4]>
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>My take: Changing a debugging flag should have minimal impact on the >install base of FreeBSD. Merging of the syntax (if not the actual >code) of the install programs is a good thing for the BSD community in >general, and the FreeBSD speficially. It should be done, and should >cause few, if any, problems. > >Comments? I, personally, agree. I think that it is a serious mistake for the community to have multiple "local" definitions of a "standard". The same philosophy SHOULD apply to all of the common commands. They need to behave in the same way on each platform. This is particularly true of anything used to do system builds because cross-platform compatability is important in porting to new systems. Just look at the mess that we have with PC interface cards :-)
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