From owner-freebsd-doc Sat May 20 7:25:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D7F37B5A5 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 07:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx ([24.6.244.187]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000520142528.KWQH22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>; Sat, 20 May 2000 07:25:28 -0700 Content-Length: 1184 X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200005200230.TAA61531@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 10:26:16 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Eric Ogren Subject: Re: docs/18683: Insufficient detail in /usr/src/UPDATING instruc Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20000520142528.KWQH22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20-May-00 Eric Ogren wrote: > The following reply was made to PR docs/18683; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Eric Ogren > To: alex@wnm.net > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: docs/18683: Insufficient detail in /usr/src/UPDATING instructions > Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 22:30:21 -0400 > > Personally, I do not think that this change should be made. If a user > does not know enough about FreeBSD to know how to mount their partitions > from single-user mode, ***they should not be upgrading via source***. > I have said this many times, and I will re-iterate it again: if users are > not experienced, they should *only* use binary snapshots to upgrade. People have to start somewhere, and if we are going to grow our userbase, we will have to appeal to more newbies. There's more to making a widely used OS than writing code. :-) > I am of course not a committer, but I felt like I should log my > objections anyway. :) > > Eric -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message