Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih%hamartun.priv.no@localhost>]

Let me suggest a possible solution:

Maxime very sensibly wants to minimize the attack surface of a basic,
default, installation of the system.  The main argument against this is
that it would mean that casual installers would find that they couldn't
run e.g. Linux binaries on a NetBSD/amd64 installation without making
some extra incantations, ones that they naturally don't know about.

What if the default were the safe mode that Maxime recommends, and the
installer helpfully had a stage that said something like "Your platform
has the ability of supporting one or more emulations for your
convenience.  Please select from the following menu which you would like
to enable.  (You may, of course, change this later; see 'man emul' after
installing to learn more about this.)"...?

-tih
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