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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:40:26 -0500
From:      Jon Disnard <diz@linuxpowered.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE
Message-ID:  <40F464DA.4030501@linuxpowered.com>
In-Reply-To: <27296.1089757404@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <27296.1089757404@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>In message <40F45FBC.6010709@corrupt.co.nz>, Drew Broadley writes:
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>>If you are so much so complaining about the lack of 27 extra characters 
>>typed by users/admins,
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>That is not the point we (or at least I) are complaining about, the
>point is that neither removing the world target nor making it blatter
>out a big multicolor linux style README is not a solution.
>
>The correct solution is the add whatever it takes to make the world
>target fail if it is unsafe.
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Ok that sounds good. I still think a verbose warning at the initiation 
of "make world" is a good thing though, but possibly only if DESTDIR is 
not something aside from  root.
So possibly a system to parse UPDATING, or whatever, for ABI changes and 
then halting the installworld stages of the world target?
That seems good and bad, because sometimes people checkin without any 
documentation, and this idea would absolutely require anything with a 
potential to cause hazard to be documented with (or before) the 
associated checkin. Are all the commiters diligent enough to do that? Is 
there some other way we can have this idea of a "smart make world" that 
acknowledges the case of lazy documentation?



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