[662] in NetBSD-Development
Re: consult locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Mar 14 03:36:17 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 03:35:47 -0500
To: yoav@MIT.EDU
Cc: bdrosen@livewire.mit.edu, jhawk@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[661] in NetBSD-Development"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> A) dig is part of the stuff in the consult locker. IF you don't want that
> dig program, then you shouldn't have consult in your path before whatever
> dig it is you want to run.
You miss the point, yoav.
IF dig in the consult locker is the same as dsgrep (part of the release),
it is serving no useful function and should go away. It doesn't cause
namespace collisions in my PATH, it causes namespace collisions in
people's BRAINS, which is worse.
Programs that are useless should go away.
I'm using this a convenient time/pedestal to question existing
practice.
--jhawk
