From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 4 13:36:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA21683 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 13:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (mail-atm.san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA21678 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 13:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA03624; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 13:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709042035.NAA03624@mail.san.rr.com> Received: from dt5h1n61.san.rr.com(204.210.31.97) by mail via smap (V2.0) id xma003513; Thu, 4 Sep 97 13:35:32 -0700 From: "Studded" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 04 Sep 97 13:35:26 -0700 Reply-To: "Studded" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Buildworld failing !still! Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 04 Sep 1997 00:20:32 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> link originally because I prefer to have the root directory as uncluttered >> as possible. Jordan, maybye this dependence should be noted somewhere, >> hunh? > >Hmmm. But you're the first person to ever report doing this to himself. :-) This doesn't change the fundamental point that having any makefiles depend on this link is bad design. It's part of that question I think we need to keep asking ourselves... do we want to continue making FreeBSD easier for people to use, or do we want to preserve antiquated, customary structures because they're not "broken" for the clueful? It's a fine line in places, however I think this is a pretty clear-cut case. Of course, I know Jordan is aware of this, I just don't want the importance of something like this to be overlooked. It's the little things that are important in the long run, especially given that what we have works pretty well in the now. :) Thanks for listening, Doug Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. -Shakespeare, "Henry V"