From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 22 16:20:18 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA11482 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:20:18 -0800 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA11469 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:20:06 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA16248; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:23:23 -0700 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:23:23 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199502230023.RAA16248@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp "Re: TRUE and FALSE" (Feb 22, 4:08pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: TRUE and FALSE Cc: current@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The fundamental problem is that the source-tree should be self-contained. > > Just think about the benefit of a "make world" which will not hose your > c-compiler if the c-compiler source is sick... And just where am I going to install the new tools? This assumes that I have room for 2 completely independant 'systems' on the same box. This is very rarely the case for most folks. And for those that do have the room for both, an chroot tree works *almost* as good as doesn't cause a lot of un-ncessary headache for the common case. Nate