From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 21:56:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A3B16A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:56:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8842B43D1D for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:56:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.11/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i6DLuclI086412; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:56:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <26481.1089755361@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <26481.1089755361@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:55:37 +0200 To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: Barney Wolff cc: Garance A Drosihn cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:56:58 -0000 At 11:49 PM +0200 2004-07-13, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > I think the problem here is that people type "make world" when > they shouldn't. Right, but they don't know that, because almost all the documentation over the past ten years has said that this is the way to do things. We can put "don't use 'make world'" in all the primary documentation you want, and maybe 1% of the users will ever see that, after they've been burned. The way to fix this problem is to fix it. > But removing the world target will make a lot of documentation > wrong, about 22900 pages of documentation according to google. All that stuff is wrong anyway. There's no reason we should continue to support that. > Find a better solution please. If you've got one, I'd love to hear it. So far, I haven't heard of anything better. -- Brad Knowles, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.