Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:27:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install -C Message-ID: <199902142127.NAA05513@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:24:42 MST." <199902142124.OAA22436@mt.sri.com>
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> > I've talked to people on IRC who deleted their Elf interpreter because > > its mtime predated their last make world. Shooting yourself in the > > foot like that is too high a price for the few seconds saved during > > make installworld. > > Dr., Dr., it hurts when I do this. > > Then *DON'T* do it. > > If you don't know what you are doing, then don't do stupid things. I > think the defaults should stay the way they are, because there are very > valid reasons for using 'install -C' on the special files described. I was present during at least some of these conversations. If these people hadn't deleted their ELF interpreters, they'd just have found some other way to screw themselves. We're seeing the manifestation of some millenial lemmings with the impending a.out->ELF finality; just carry an umbrella strong enough to resist small furry bodies at terminal velocity and all will be well. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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