Subject: Re: README: changes to the build system
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/14/1999 10:08:32
Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> writes:
> I would like to make another suggestion that is slightly unrelated to the
> build process, but affects the install. I think it would be nice if crypto
> in the base system installed in something like /usr/crypto/bin, etc.. perhaps
> with symlinks in /usr/bin, etc.
> Why? so that one can do:
> # rm -rf /usr/crypto/bin
> # zzz
> <pass through US customs... connect at hotel>
> # pkg-based-sysinst-install ftp://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/.../cryptopkg
> #
No U.S. national leaving the U.S. with a laptop needs such a
thing. "Personal use exemption".
Perry