From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 24 21:36:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2AE637B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:36:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.southeast.rr.com (smtp3.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B8E43E84 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:36:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6 [24.93.67.53]) by smtp3.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6P4aOHV010991; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:36:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:36:30 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 1BD25BA12; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:36:21 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Darren Pilgrim , Matthew Whelan Subject: Re: make world considered harmful Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:36:20 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: Jamie Bowden , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <3D3F7BFC.B8940B89@pantherdragon.org> In-Reply-To: <3D3F7BFC.B8940B89@pantherdragon.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207250036.20891.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 25 July 2002 12:18 am, Darren Pilgrim wrote: | Matthew Whelan wrote: | > 24/07/2002 14:59:42, Jamie Bowden wrote: | > [re-insert from Brian's post] | > | > >:Personally, I think it would be better to remove it; for those who | > >: dislike typing and don't mind endangering their system, it would be | > >: better to have instead a | > >: | > >:make universe | > | > Maybe 'make bravenewworld'? | | Is there a reason against changing the world target to just be an alias | for "make buildworld && make kernel && make installworld && mergemaster"? | Forgive me if I'm asking something already answered I haven't been able | to follow this entire thread. Far better IMHO to create a new target for this and delete the old "bad" target than to change the meaning of an existing name. If we keep the exiting name we must keep the existing behavior or it will cause far more confusion than it prevents. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message