From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 2 11: 7:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D0E37B400; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DBA343E8A; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:07:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ripper@eskimo.com) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26863; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:07:45 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id LAA24325; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:07:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:07:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200208021807.LAA24325@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: blackend@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: rdm@cfcl.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20020802194355.B54849@abigail.blackend.org> (message from Marc Fonvieille on Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:43:55 +0200) Subject: Re: docs/41253: config(8) and/or Handbook deficiency Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >In fact about that chapter, some people will want directly the commands >and others many explanations and guidelines, it is the problem of that >sort of subject. Yes, there are two kinds of people. Those who are recompiling the kernel to enable some option or another, and those who are recompiling the kernel because something in the kernel sources needed fixing/updating. The overall flow of the chapter is a sequence of blocks of the form: "Here is something complicated for you to read..... But if you aren't doing anything unusual you don't need to worry about it." At the end, after reading these two different ways to install the kernel, one of which is "traditional" (whatever that means) and the other of which is "new" (implying that traditions and old and new is unorthodox), you get: "If you have not upgraded your source tree in any way (you have not run CVSup, CTM, or used anoncvs), then you should use the config, make depend, make, make install sequence." It's kind of amusing really. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message