Things to remove from /rescue

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:06:51AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > This is a crunched binary, so space is really not a big issue (plus,
> > the basic set of libraries is probably some 300-400Kb, so discussing
> > about adding/removing components which take 2-3 KB such as date,
> > sleep, comcontrol, conscontrol is just pointless in my opinion;
> > just convenience should be enough to keep some things around).
> >
> > For ipfw/natd, i admit that they might be fatter than what one might
> > want, but then again they might be useful in case you have to access
> > the outside world to grab things. What do you save by removing them ?
> 
> I think this is an excellent point.  David, can you provide actual numbers
> of how much removing each of these programs saves?

Then hell, lets just totally duplicate all of /[s]bin into /rescue.
Remember this is BSD, this is Unix.  This isn't every other gargantuan
OS.  Before you call me facious, seriously ask yourself what is the
purpose of /rescue.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)