From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 07:11:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA20037 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 07:11:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from kalypso.cybercom.net (kalypso.cybercom.net [209.21.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA20029 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 07:10:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ksmm@kalypso.cybercom.net) Received: from localhost (ksmm@localhost) by kalypso.cybercom.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA00929 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:09:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:09:49 -0500 (EST) From: The Classiest Man Alive cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? In-Reply-To: <199712101002.LAA14559@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Why is it that every time somebody suggests making a script or GUI utility to automate some boring but necessary UNIX process, all you guys who went to school with Dennis Richie pop out and start complaining about how the GUI is the greatest affront to computer science since the invention of the transistor? Nobody's going to be any worse off if we *add* some new ways to do things. I sincerely think that some of you are actually opposed to the proliferation of FreeBSD to people who don't think Emacs is the greatest app ever written. I swear, you all are going to drive me to learn C. Whew, that felt good. :-) K.S.