From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 10:42:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA06342 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:42:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from heron.doc.ic.ac.uk (eLOWzgSlf/2qcIh2rWYNEUF3M9YNJuQA@heron.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.2.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA06322 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:42:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk) Received: from ash3.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.16.31] ([Y6wSnX4odyfzUx+g1shbBMalqxbjQ6z7]) by heron.doc.ic.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.62 #3) id 0xfr4O-0005p4-00; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:41:16 +0000 Received: from njs3 by ash3.doc.ic.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0xfr3p-0004d5-00; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:40:41 +0000 From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:40:41 +0000 In-Reply-To: The Classiest Man Alive "Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel?" (Dec 10, 10:09am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Dec 10, 10:09am, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: } Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? > > > transistor? Nobody's going to be any worse off if we *add* some new ways > to do things. I don't think anyone on this list has said that GUI tools shouldn't be *added*, just that they should be built on top of a command line util. > 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. stdin: parse error Yes, I agree vi > emacs if thats what you're trying to say. > I swear, you all are going to drive me to learn C. "anything but perl" Niall