Re: Things to remove from /rescue

From: David O'Brien (obrien_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 07/25/03

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To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>

    On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:06:52PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
    > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:59:33AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
    > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:25:32PM -0400, Mike Makonnen wrote:
    > ...
    > > > base system. IMO, /rescue should be the absolute essentials _only_.
    > > > Instead of theorizing reasons why someone might need ipfw and friends,
    > > > why don't we wait until we get a bug report about a specific situation
    > > > in which it was needed before we put it back in.
    > >
    > > Thank you for expressing this so well. I do think we should wait for
    > > PR's telling real experiences rather than theorizing so much in the "what
    > > if"'s.
    >
    > then just nuke everything from /rescue and waif for PR's... :)

    {\sarcasm
        Or just go back to /[s]bin being statically linked and create
        /[s]bin.dynamic and those that want that can put it first in their
        path.
    }
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