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Re: Things todo before we announce

To: cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Things todo before we announce
From: "Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:21:30 +0200
Cc: nathans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <14562.44287.39273.95483R@gibble.americas.sgi.com>; from cattelan@thebarn.com on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:25:19PM -0600
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:25:19PM -0600, cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The point I was getting at:
> We shouldn't pollute the system with stuff people can't 
> distinctly remove;  not util xfs it more accecpted.
> 
> A lot of people are going to try xfs initially but
> not really do much with it.
> 
> Giving people a distinct point to "blow stuff away"  
> is more conforting than the MS scheme of "replacing 80% of
> your os now...."

I think just doing a rpm/dpkg is preferable over /usr/xfs
It makes it easy enough to blow stuff away. You can also 
make the rpm relocateable if you worry about the place
(but /sbin is a fine default) 


-Andi

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