deorbiting /usr/lib/libstand.a, moving to sysboot

[Ian Lepore]

On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 17:57 +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 9 Oct 2017, at 07:45, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I'd like to deorbit /usr/lib/stand.a and /usr/include/stand.h. These are
> > really parts of the boot loader with an unstable API and shouldn't be
> > installed into the system. It's really a private library to the boot loader.
> Though I completely agree with this, I am still interested in the
> historical reasons for separating out this library for general userland
> consumption.  Were there any other parts of world that happened to use
> libstand?
> 
> -Dimitry
> 

There are out-of-tree users of libstand.  Perhaps not many, but a
couple times after doing something to libstand I've received emails
from people that thanked me for the enhancement and mentioned some non-
loader(8) use of the lib in passing.  (Unfortunately, I can't find any
of those mails now, they were from 2-3 years ago.)

-- Ian