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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: mdean <mdean@best.com>
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Subject: Re: group assignments from make world. 
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On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, mdean wrote:

> > 
> > No offense to Matthew intended, but people really need to start using
> > this feature more as it's really kinda starting to suck that every
> > time we have a bootstrapping issue like this, it generates hundreds of
> > identical questions for months. :-(
> 
> Perhaps this could be made more active.  You could put updated docs in the
> source tree during cvsup about these little points, then part of make world
> could be to interactively read the little notes that haven't been read to
> date, eh?

Prob wouldn't go over too well; I know I start a make world before I go to
bed, and I'd rather not have it get 1/10 of the way thru, and I don't find
out until I get home from work the next day, and waste a whole day doing a
several hour task.
But it WOULD be effective...  Although it could quickly become about as
effective as warnings in /etc/motd.

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