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To: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine)
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Subject: Re: What do people think of this change to /usr/src/Makefile? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:49:51 BST."
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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:44:48 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> My only real point is that catering for folks with such lack of procedural
> discipline by adding bloat to an already complex core part of the system is
> generally asking for trouble.  For anyone with a clue (which should include

I don't see wanting to do simultaneous makes using a *stock* source
tree as any lack of procedural discipline.  I was very disappointed in
the BSD source tree mechanism when I saw how badly they'd muffed it
with the symlinks and this is just my attempt to FIX it.

> This is a minor case in point, but a few of these add up to have a significan
t
> effect on the simplicity of the system (perhaps making more important future
> changes that little bit harder to preserve compatibility).

Actually, if you want to look at the .mk files again you'll find that
I've greatly *simplified* things in many major respects!

						Jordan