Re: Remove BIND, Sendmail, Perl and etc from base?

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:58 AM -0500 7/24/03, Peter da Silva wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > Well to add the idea of dynamic root, I suggest something
> > like:
> > - rescue => contains /stand with static versions of /bin
> >             and /sbin
>
> That looks like a duplicate of /sbin, which ahould be static
> anyway, ne?

/rescue does not contain *everything* from /bin and /sbin,
just a selection of key programs.  NetBSD has done this,
and FreeBSD is doing this in 5.x-current.  I think it is a
reasonable thing to do, as long as the list is kept small.

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