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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 13:50:34 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        joelh@gnu.org
Cc:        jahan@pc.jaring.my, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Undefined symbol "___error" 
Message-ID:  <13741.895611034@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 13:09:55 CDT." <199805191809.NAA08275@detlev.UUCP> 

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> I thought that was the idea behind -stable?

Only for those who have the know-how to track and update a Unix OS
from sources and who also possess enough skill to return themselves to
sanity if and when a source-based upgrade doesn't work.  A novice
might pull it off once or twice out of luck, but it's really just a
monkey pushing buttons in a spacecraft at that point - it may be
orbiting the earth but it's still not an astronaut. :-)

People sometimes forget that -stable and -current are made available
as a service primarily to *software engineers* and others who have no
difficulty with the idea of getting directly involved with building
binaries from sources, they're not at all aimed at or intended for the
casual user/Unix novice and it's for that latter audience that we
produce our regular releases.

- Jordan

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