From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 12 15:28:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A63215295; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:28:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.2) id XAA19038; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:14:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:14:04 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: sheldonh@FreeBSD.org Cc: jobaldwi@vt.edu, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/12595: [PATCH] New FAQ Entry: "Why shouldn't I just go ahead and run -current?" Message-ID: <19990712231404.A18590@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <199907122128.OAA67417@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199907122128.OAA67417@freefall.freebsd.org>; from sheldonh@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:28:55PM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:28:55PM -0700, sheldonh@FreeBSD.org wrote: > Synopsis: [PATCH] New FAQ Entry: "Why shouldn't I just go ahead and run -current?" > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: sheldonh > State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 12 14:26:12 PDT 1999 > State-Changed-Why: > The submitter and I are in agreement that Daniel's FAQ entry wasn't > really intended as a serious FAQ that would actually reduce the number > of questions asked on -current or -hackers. :-) I'm in two minds about this -- I can see your point, that the sort of people it's aimed at probably won't read it anyway, but. . . it might make a difference. Given that we don't know whether it will or not, and since the submission would drop straight in to the FAQ with no changes required, isn't it a better idea just to put it in anyway? I mean, what do we lose by doing so? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message