From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 14 23:02:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00504 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:02:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA00482 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:02:01 GMT (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01781; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:01:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd001759; Tue Apr 14 23:01:52 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA18519; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:01:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199804150601.XAA18519@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: the place of vi To: rotel@indigo.ie Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:01:48 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804150043.BAA01063@indigo.ie> from "Niall Smart" at Apr 15, 98 01:43:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is a thread that some people want killed, but as far as I can > see they are the same people who want to keep vi in /usr/bin; given > that there are still a significant number of people, myself included, > who strongly disagree with this view and given that the issues > haven't been thrashed out fully I don't think we should kill it > just yet. I want the thread dead, and I'm all for putting a minimum set of shared libraries and ld.so in /slib and linking the whole damn system dynamic, since /slib is just as recoverable as /kernel or /sbin/mount or any one of the other single points of failure that you need "fixit" disks for in the first place. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message