From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 24 14:48:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA09493 for current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:48:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09466 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:48:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA04763; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:45:14 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199609242145.OAA04763@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:45:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: imp@village.org, nate@mt.sri.com, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <7280.843592590@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 24, 96 12:16:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.