Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:23:23 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> Cc: current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: TRUE and FALSE Message-ID: <199502230023.RAA16248@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> "Re: TRUE and FALSE" (Feb 22, 4:08pm)
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> The fundamental problem is that the source-tree should be self-contained. > > Just think about the benefit of a "make world" which will not hose your > c-compiler if the c-compiler source is sick... And just where am I going to install the new tools? This assumes that I have room for 2 completely independant 'systems' on the same box. This is very rarely the case for most folks. And for those that do have the room for both, an chroot tree works *almost* as good as doesn't cause a lot of un-ncessary headache for the common case. Nate
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