Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:18:36 +1200 From: Drew Broadley <drew@corrupt.co.nz> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE Message-ID: <40F45FBC.6010709@corrupt.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <22993.1089745723@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <22993.1089745723@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > If you sit back for a moment and think about the number of barriers > >a user must already scale to get to the point of typing "make world", >then I think you will see that adding 27 extra characters is not >going to change anything. In particular not when compared the the >number of places we have to change (to the extent we can) documentation >which mentions "make world". > >You might as well try to change the shape of the carinals hats. > > > It's about breaking habits (humans are cronic for retaining bad ones). I see his point, it's just a little to in the end stop a lot of confusion. If you are so much so complaining about the lack of 27 extra characters typed by users/admins, I'm very sure it isn't that much more effort to put in the addition of 27+ characters to the Makefile for the developers to make a safety net for people whom are accustomed to "make world". This will remind them with a high level of VERBOSE, that they need to read /usr/src/UPDATING. My two cents. - Drew
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