Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 19:21:43 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), wollman@lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel versions and config's rm -rf Message-ID: <25084.812168503@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Sep 1995 18:44:42 PDT." <199509270144.SAA04093@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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> 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
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