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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 1997 18:05:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: make world
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970407180256.15555B-100000@protocol.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199704072147.PAA11559@rocky.mt.sri.com>

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On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Nate Williams wrote:

> > You know, there are several things installed by a make world that I
> > *really* wish I could condition out via a make veriable:
> 
> Then copy gnu/usr.bin/Makefile to gnu/usr.bin/makefile, and comment
> them out. :)
> 
> There is such a thing as being 'too flexible', because it introduces
> too much complexity for those that don't understand the system.

Well, that takes care of one of three, but that gets undone next time I do
a cvs update.  It doesn't seem like a viable longterm alternative.  Making
the changes I want wouldn't break anything else in the make world, because
I want more up to date versions (or to stop changing certain files).

> 
> 
> 
> Nate
> 

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