[6615] in Athena Bugs
[bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU: extra files in /bin/athena]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Dec 18 13:14:10 1990
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 90 13:13:56 -0500
From: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU
this is really a bug report (that the delete suite is installed on the
root, that is). hopefully this sort of stupidity can be prevented in
the next release; it's not reasonable for release engineering to
whinge about how much space they don't have on the root while letting
this sort of stuff slip thru ...
REFERENCE:
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 90 12:59:46 -0500
From: "Barr3y Jaspan" <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Sender: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: suggest@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU, lwvanels@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "Jonathan I. Kamens"'s message of Tue, 18 Dec 90 12:51:30 -0500 <9012181751.AA20345@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
Subject: extra files in /bin/athena
(Note that I moved this to software suggestions.)
IMHO, the entire "delete" system doesn't need to be in
/bin/athena.
Where do you think it should go?
I think it should be in /usr/athena/bin. However, since Athena still
has the losing design of putting binaries in /usr/athena :-), I think
it should go there.
I don't see the need for this system to take up space on the root
partition. If someone is mucking around with a deactivated
workstation (for example, in single-user mode) they should be careful
and knowledgeable enough not to need them around. In any case, I
don't think it makes sense to have them on the root of public machines
which are hardly ever used while deactivated anyway.
Barr3y
