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Date:      Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:58:31 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r40117 - in head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook: kernelbuild policies tools
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On Nov 21, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:

> On 21 November 2012 13:14, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
>> This seems to remove the last documentation of manually invoking =
config(8)
>> to build a kernel, which seems worthy of explicit mention, and =
perhaps
>> broader discussion.
>=20
> This should probably be documented in config(1) or some other "how the
> build process works" document.  So far as I could tell, the old method
> should be considered an implementation detail, not an alternative.
> That said I agree this probably deserves some broader consideration,
> so perhaps doc@ is the best place to discuss? Or would a developer
> focussed ML like hackers@ be better?

I don't see why it can't just stay in the handbook...  It is widely =
used, and often developers use it quite heavily.  It is more than just =
an implementation "detail", since it would be extremely hard to swap =
anything else in right now.

Warner




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