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Jordan quoted a nice "So, you want to make world?" contribution
from Joseph Stein. A couple of minor comments:

1. 

> > Please note, however, that when you execute 'make world', you are likely
> > to find all manner of hardware problems (that will usually show up as
> > signal 12), but, if it completes sucessfully, you will know that your
> > hardware is really "up to snuff".

Surely sig 11 is just as common as sig 12?

2.

There's one issue with doing "make world" that this doesn't cover:
it's possible (n'est-ce pas?) for it to wipe out non-standard bits
of your configuration: notably it tries to rebuild sendmail even if
/usr/sbin/sendmail is actually Exim or Smail or something. Or has
this been changed?


Modulo that, I like it.

-- 
Gareth McCaughan       Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
gjm11@dpmms.cam.ac.uk  Cambridge University, England.