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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:57:51 -0500
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE
Message-ID:  <200407131357.51695.kirk@strauser.com>
In-Reply-To: <22138.1089743312@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <22138.1089743312@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Tuesday 2004-07-13 01:28 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> And your argument here is that people are reciprocally less likely
> to hose (or as it may be: not hose) their systems because the have
> to type 27 characters more to do so ?

In this one particular case, I believe so.  I imagine that quite a few=20
admins are still typing "make world" because that's how they've been=20
upgrading their systems for the last decade or so and it usually still=20
works.  If "make world" failed loudly, perhaps with a firm reminder to=20
read /usr/src/UPDATING, maybe some of these admins would finally take the=20
hint.
=2D-=20
Kirk Strauser

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