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In message: <200305281447.02322.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
            "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
: On Wed, 28 May 2003 14:41, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <200305281350.27953.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
: >
: >             "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
: > : Maybe the kernel build stuff can look in /usr/local/src/sys/modules for
: > : things to build or something..
: >
: > YUCK!
: 
: *WHY?*
: 
: I have asked this before BTW, and I haven't been told why it sucks.

Because there are other, more elegant ways of dealing with these
things.  I don't like /usr/local/src anything, which was the main
complaint.

Warner