From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 16:45:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D99037B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:45:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1D0j7607660; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:45:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:45:06 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alex Zepeda Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -CURRENT is bad for me... Message-ID: <20010212164506.C3038@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <200102122220.f1CMKUm01666@mass.dis.org> <20010212162004.A9106@zippy.mybox.zip> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010212162004.A9106@zippy.mybox.zip>; from jazepeda@pacbell.net on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:20:04PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:20:04PM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote: > How is this more acceptable than bumping the major number? Are they > really so precious that they can only be incremented once for a release > cycle? Yes. I don't want to be in a position where we wonder what happened to libc.so.5 when I don't see it in my /usr/lib/ or /usr/lib/compat/ > Seems to me that a new major number is far cleaner than a gross hack. I am very against this. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message