From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 9 16:13:33 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA05533 for current-outgoing; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 16:13:33 -0700 Received: from xenon.chromatic.com (xenon.chromatic.com [199.5.224.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA05527 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 16:13:31 -0700 Received: from localhost (jdl@localhost) by xenon.chromatic.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA28456; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 16:13:12 -0700 Message-Id: <199509092313.QAA28456@xenon.chromatic.com> X-Authentication-Warning: xenon.chromatic.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: John Capo cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sig 11 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Sep 1995 14:51:22 EDT." <199509091851.OAA16895@irbs.irbs.com> Reply-To: jdl@chromatic.com Clarity-Index: null Threat-Level: none Software-Engineering-Dead-Seriousness: There's no excuse for unreadable code. Net-thought: If you meet the Buddha on the net, put him in your Kill file. Date: Sat, 09 Sep 1995 16:13:12 -0700 From: Jon Loeliger Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk John Capo scribbled: > These kinds of problems are all part of running -current. Current > is a development tree and is quite often broken for one reason or > another. Like the docs say, "The bleeding edge". > > Sounds like you should be running -stable rather than -current. Hmmm. Is the problem here that people always think they want to be running "the latest release" and they equate that to the "current" system and get it wrong? Should we maybe rename the -current as like, -development, -devel, -bleed or something? To make it *really* obvious. I mean, I had to actually *read* FAQ to find this out... :-) jdl