From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Oct 7 10:13:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF27137B401; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 10:13:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f97HD7v36567; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:13:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:13:07 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Warner Losh Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , current@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: Proposal: Replacement for VISUALUSERCONFIG (was: Re: Need to update man section 4!) Message-ID: <20011007191307.A36553@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200110071048.TAA07886@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <200110061018.TAA03313@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <20011006142219.A12443@hades.hell.gr> <200110070613.PAA06382@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <200110071048.TAA07886@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <200110071607.f97G7X752395@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110071607.f97G7X752395@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:07:33AM -0600 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:07:33AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200110071048.TAA07886@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: > : - One big drawback: this will bloat the boot loader and will consume > : precious disk space in kern.flp... *sigh* > > This is the only downside to the work that you've done. Sometimes I > think we'd get more boot loader maintainers if we had LISP in the > loader :-) Then again, maybe not... FWIW: everything that bloats the loader tends to break the alpha port. Caveat empor.. -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message