Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:20:56 -0400 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE Message-ID: <20040713212056.GA82311@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <25787.1089753241@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <p06110411bd19eadd8741@[128.113.24.47]> <25787.1089753241@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:14:01PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I have been involved in FreeBSD since we created the ncvs repository > ten years and two months ago and barring minor mistakes here and > there "make world" has performed the correct sequence of operations > since then. Could you please enlighten the rest of us as to when the sequence of operations performed by "make world" is a useful thing to do? The only case I can imagine is that of a developer who has changed a .h file that is widely used by userland but not by the kernel, and I find it hard to imagine that happens often enough to weigh against the continual damage to new users from this deceptively inviting target. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.
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