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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:09:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        obrien@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh 
Message-ID:  <200101112009.f0BK9EW73620@earth.backplane.com>
References:   <9216.979241717@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>

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:On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:12:54 PST, Matt Dillon wrote:
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:>     The level of sophistication and the number of hacks is *NOT* *NECESSARY*
:>     when a simple, minor restructuring of /etc/rc and a tiny change to 
:>     mount_mfs (newfs) completely solves the problem.
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:>     You guys are taking a bad idea and making it worse.
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:We're providing an immediate solution to a problem which is a serious
:annoyance for -CURRENT developers.  Furthermore, this solution is a step
:closer to the end goal (read on).
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:You're flying off the handle because we've replaced one file in the root
:partition with several files and a directory in the root partition.
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:Now read calmly...

   You should do it right the first time rather then make incremental
   commits each of which causes pain to the development community.

   Your incremental commits are the problem here, not the solution.

					-Matt



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