From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 26 19:22:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA28308 for current-outgoing; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 19:22:27 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA28299 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 19:22:21 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA25086; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 19:21:44 -0700 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), wollman@lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel versions and config's rm -rf In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Sep 1995 18:44:42 PDT." <199509270144.SAA04093@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 19:21:43 -0700 Message-ID: <25084.812168503@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > and get back rather quickly. Others who have not been doing this for > years simply take the slow, but guaranteed to work way out of rm'ing > the whole pile :-(. That's a gross oversimplification. There are yet others who have no *personal* problem with futzing the compile directory directly or otherwise doing any number of wizardly "old timer's" tricks but simply don't want to deal with the *tech support* problem of other folks not knowing enough. When I patched config it wasn't just to prevent from shooting myself in the foot, though it occasionally helped at that when I was sleepy, it was to safe the feet of all those users who regularly wrote to us with "problems" that were the direct and obvious result of in-place builds that slowly went out of sync and rotted. JOrdan