From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 22 19:47:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3501037B479 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:47:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9N2kUA84359; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:46:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: "stop here. start everywhere." Cc: Sergey Babkin , Frederik Meerwaldt , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux In-Reply-To: Message from "stop here. start everywhere." of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:11:06 +0200." <39F3902A.6846BB49@phpStop.com> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:46:29 -0700 Message-ID: <84356.972269189@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Speaking of this subject again, I have read in the archives that FreeBSD > has a method of building the whole source tree using the "make world" > command. Although this is a nice feature, but isn't too much risky to > upgrade the whole system in one shot? Not anywhere near as "risky" as upgrading one component which n things depend on (without necessarily knowing this) and then having those n things start failing in mysterious and not-immediately-obvious ways. The make world target, on the other hand, knows the correct order to build things in so that interface or implementation changes are done in the correct order. > be dead. In Linux, on the contrary, there's no such feature and you'll Which is why things frequently break in not-immediately-obvious ways over there when people upgrade things piece-meal and in the incorrect order. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message