From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 13:56:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3F337B4EC for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1CLudm01554; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:56:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200102122156.f1CLudm01554@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -CURRENT is bad for me... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:50:32 MST." <200102122150.f1CLoWW31812@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:56:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Then wouldn't the "partially applied patch" rule apply? eg, back it > out until the issues can be resolved. Breaking the upgrade path isn't > acceptible. I have to "me too" this; the change simply isn't OK. There are a variety of ways that we can work around the issue and maintain binary compatibility, whilst still moving towards something that is immune to this breakage in future. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message