Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:09:50 +0000 From: Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing 'man' to check alternate destination for 'cat' pages Message-ID: <20011214150950.A12728@inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <p05101006b83f343ebb2d@[128.113.24.47]>; from drosih@rpi.edu on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:21:25AM -0500 References: <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au> <p0510100bb83ddfa9e683@[128.113.24.47]> <20011213101401.C77774@sunbay.com> <p05101006b83f343ebb2d@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Fri Dec 14, 2001 at 12:21:25AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> Someone else then mentioned that if /usr *is* a part of '/', then we
> don't have to statically-build all the binaries in /bin or /sbin. It
> was noted that this saves several megabytes in the size of the system,
> and that such savings are welcome in some situations (embedded systems,
> older machines, etc).
As long as this isn't made the default. It's lovely to be free to be
able to rm -rf /usr/{bin|sbin|lib*} etc and still have all the tools
in /bin and /sbin available for recovery purposes.
--
Jonathan Perkin - BBC Internet Services - <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk>
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