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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-961006-SNAP - lsdev and mkisofs went away?
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 18:21:41 -0700
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To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>

Nick Sayer wrote:
> included ebones and the 1006 one didn't), and several surprises:
> routed moved and lsdev and mkisofs went away.
> 
> Why did lsdev and mkisofs go away?

1. lsdev was part of the ill-fated DEVCONF stuff which just never worked
completely enough to use, so it was finally deprecated.

2. mkisofs went into the ports collection, since it doesn't actually
need to be part of the system.  In the process, it was updated.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project