cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile

[John-Mark Gurney]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote this message on Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:32 +0200:
> What this means is that I did a technical review of this change,
> but my personal opinion about this is that the opposite should
> have been done (i.e., the compatibility link in sbin/bsdlabel
> should have been removed instead).  But since the majority of
> those discussing this change seemed to like having it (both here
> and there), I wasn't strongly objecting to it anymore.  Just for
> the record...  ;)

How about if we replaced disklabel w/ a simple script that described
why disklabel disappeared?  I am somewhat for keeping the link since
it reduces support questions..  but at the same time, I've had people
ask the question: "Why can't my disklabel'd disk on my sparc64 box not
get seen/understood by my x86 box?  I used the same program to label
them, yet the partitions aren't appearing on x86."

If we broke disklabel w/ an explination of what the "real" labels are
for each arch, I think that this would fix both the short term support
cost, and the long term understanding and adding of additional platforms
(for when ppc becomes tier-1)...

Anyways, if someone is smart enough to be using disklabel manually
instead of sysinstall, they should be able to understand the differences
between platforms and to use the proper program...  It wouldn't be hard
to have the script detect the local platform and say, use this program
instead.

comments?

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