Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:45:14 -0700 (MST)
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc: imp@village.org, nate@mt.sri.com, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD
Message-ID: <199609242145.OAA04763@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <7280.843592590@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 24, 96 12:16:30 pm
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> > Sorry to sound a little frustrated, but the grabbing the code from > > NetBSD, putting it into FreeBSD's install and testing it took less > > time than I've spent writing email on this topic. > > That's because you forgot the cardinal rule of FreeBSD development: > It's easier to apologise afterwards than ask permision beforehand. :-) > > [Yes folks, I'm mostly joking, but there have been more than a few > instances where we'd have all been better off had a given problem > been solved with more coding and less talking, especially when the > change being discussed was trivial and truly not worth an extended > debate] The method works best if you have commit privs, however. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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