Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/amiga/stand/misc
To: None <source-changes@netbsd.org, tech-install@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 06/07/2004 22:14:28
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Hi,

Michael Hitch added some AmigaDOS tools needed to src/sys/arch/amiga/stand
after asking me about my opinion --- there are architectures having the stu=
ff
in src/distrib, while i386 has them in src/sys/arch/i386/stand.

A discussion started on source-changes. See e.g.:

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:53:11PM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> matthew green wrote:
> >   =20
> >    These wouldn't. "Amigados tools which end up in installation/misc".
> >    Clearly a RELEASEDIR only type thing so (to me) a distrib item.
> >=20
> > it seems there are about as many .uue files in sys as distrib.
> > IMO the binaries should exist where the sources are...
>=20
> Many of those don't really need to be there.  E.g. i386 pfdisk and
> rawrite don't have any connection to kernel sources. amiga tools
> are built from kernel sources, but the actual binary depot place
> is quite irrelevant - sys is no better than distrib.
>=20
> It would be nice if those misc binaries would be moved outside
> sys (as has been done e.g. with acorn32), to shrink the size
> of src/sys somewhat.

I think this should be discussed on tech-install. Any new input?

Regards,
	-is

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