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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Robert Watson wrote:

> This was actually a concern I expressed in that thread: we've gone
> completely off the rails several times before in an attempt to get a
> Grand Architecture for FreeBSD Decomposition.  A few useful knobs
> sometimes goes a long way, and is far more practical.  I think we should
> block the introduction of useful knobs (especially install-knobs vs.
> build-knobs) on waiting for xmlBSD. :-) 

Sigh.  s/should block/should not block/

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories