From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 21:22:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22725 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:22:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22720 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:22:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA12656; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:26:53 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199901290526.QAA12656@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) In-Reply-To: <19990129152838.L8473@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jan 29, 1999 3:28:38 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:26:53 +1100 (EST) Cc: julian@whistle.com, bde@zeta.org.au, chris@netmonger.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > I don't think they're a good idea. Sure, I don't like style(9), but > if we're going to overhaul it, we should do it properly. Given the > diversity of opinion expressed every time anybody has tried the > smallest change, I don't see that happening, so why don't we just > forget the whole thing? Do you mean "forget changing style(9)" or "forget style(9) and delete it"? I think you probably mean the former, despite the fact that I was hoping for the latter. 8-) I can image a new subscriber to this list reading a few of these messages and thinking: "why would I want to use an OS developed by these people?". We spend so much of our time looking up our own collective asses searching for the meaning of life that it is no wonder FreeBSD doesn't feel like it has a clear direction for the future. All people seem to want to do is stomp on others who try to contribute something. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message