From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 20 2: 1: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D43A37B403 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 02:01:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FreeBSD.org (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 269078B609; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 02:00:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D1199C3.B585E8EF@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 02:00:51 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Mikhail Teterin , "M. Warner Losh" , mi+celsius@aldan.algebra.com, jstocker@tzi.de, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: C++ troubles continue References: <200206191257.03898.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <20020619101948.Q5534-100000@master.gorean.org> <20020619172520.GI85935@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I dunno, mergemaster seems to do a really good job of doing the > "file exists here, but not here" thing, I think if someone inverted > the logic it could fill this role nicely. The problem is that going one direction is easy because we have an authoritative source for where to start (/usr/src/etc/Makefile). Going the other direction is fraught with major danger, since we have no way to know what wacky stuff the user might have done. Note, this is why I've never even tried adding a "clean my /etc/ directory" feature to mm. > It's all your fault anyhow, except for your evil two space indents > your code is too good/useful to be left alone. :) The evil two space indents are there on purpose as skuldeflectors... -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message