Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 15 Jun 1996 14:35:07 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: ktrace [Was: 2.2-960612-SNAP resolver problems]
Message-ID:  <199606152035.OAA25158@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199606152005.WAA20827@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <199606151633.KAA24752@rocky.sri.MT.net> <199606152005.WAA20827@uriah.heep.sax.de>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > > I wonder whether we should turn on ktrace by default.
> > 
> > Earlier on, people were having problems that were solved by removing
> > KTRACE from their config file.
> 
> Except of a recent brokeness in -current (that only affected people
> actually using it), i cannot remember such problems.  I used to have
> it in my config file for several months if not years now.

Actually, it affected people *NOT* using it. Even if you didn't use
ktrace things were broken because of it.

> gzip used to be absolutely broken for quite a longer period of time,
> and nobody complained that it was still in the GENERIC config file. :)

That's because it was required in GENERIC for the install utils.

> Does anybody seriously object against putting it into GENERIC?

Yes.  It's un-necessary bloat that 95% of the users don't know how to
use and the other 5% know how to add it.



Nate



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199606152035.OAA25158>