Re: [9fans] Installed Plan 9, now what?

["Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>]

> "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com> writes:
> >
> > > No, it's not, it's just for updating from sources.  And even if it were,
> > > it's not used by anything else.
> >
> > here's a better question.  if we fix things so that
> > the pull files always use 9fs boot instead of 9fs kfs,
> > is there any benefit to /dist/replica/site?
>
> Bearing in mind that right now there's no benefit to site, since it
> doesn't exist,

this isn't fair -- the question is what the benefit would be
if it were there.

> the only thing I could thing of would be to override
> applyopts (e.g., to strip out -u).  Other users might come along,
> such as doing the `srv -AWP' trick, etc.  Other than that?  No, not
> right now, anyway.  Since it's a zero-cost thing, plugging it in for
> the future wouldn't hurt much, though.

well, no.  it does add to the complexity of the system,
and as presotto said there are a lot of redirects already.
i intended from the very beginning for people to customize
/dist/replica/plan9 to suit their local systems.

if there are more sensible defaults, i'd rather get them
done right in the files to begin with than require everyone
to edit /dist/replica/site.

russ