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Date:      Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:05:09 +0000
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        setantae <setantae@submonkey.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What's the point in joy(8) ? 
Message-ID:  <200111241905.fAOJ5AN55471@grimreaper.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011119131656.A92804@blackhelicopters.org> ; from Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>  "Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:16:57 EST."
References:  <20011119131656.A92804@blackhelicopters.org> 

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These things are gone in CURRENT.

They remain in STABLE so as not to yank the rug out from under 
folks' feet.

M

> I suspect that this is somewhat like the existence of /usr/sbin/linux
> and linux(8).
> 
> You might check the mailing list archives for a discussion some time
> ago about the merits of this sort of thing.  IIRC, such a discussion
> consumed copious bandwidth some time ago.  (Sorry, I don't remember
> when... been reading FreeBSD mail for about six years now, and am
> getting a little fuzzy on names and dates and suchforth.)
> 
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:37:40PM +0000, setantae wrote:
> > 
> > Is there any point whatsoever in joy(8) and it's manpage existing ?
> > 
> > They're not even referenced by the manpage for joy(4).
> > 
> > For those who don't know what I'm on about, /usr/bin/joy is a shell
> > script consisting of the shebang line, the CVS tag line and the words
> > ``kldload joy''.
> > 
> > Can someone kill it ?
> > 
> > (Sorry if I'm meddling in the affairs of dragons here.
> >  I freely admit that the only reason I don't like it is because it's
> >  ugly *and* unnecessary - ugly on it's own would be ok ;)
> > 
> > Ceri
> > 
> > -- 
> > keep a mild groove on
> > 
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> 
> -- 
> Michael Lucas
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