Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:18:02 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: jb@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile Message-ID: <199812122318.KAA27548@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <xzpogp9geg2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Dec 12, 98 11:53:17 pm"
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > John Birrell <jb@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > > Log: > > Back out revs 1.181 and 1.182 which upset a few people. I hope those > > (3?) people will make an effort to help those who would have benefitted from > > this change. > > Nobody benefited from these patches (especially not revision 1.181). OK, be picky. Sheesh. Sure, I messed that up for one of the build cases. Anybody who hasn't done an installworld since the PAM features were added would have benefitted. > What *would* be useful is a patch that finds missing files and warns > about them. But that won't meet the requirements of those who say that missing files is a normal case. Committing such a change will generate just as many emails from people who don't like _that_. I believe that an installworld should unconditionally install missing files that are unconditionally built into the release, just so that people are kept up-to-date as new features are added. But hey, it's not such a big deal to me, I was just trying to make an improvement. I misjudged the acceptability of what still seems to me to be a worthwhile thing to do. No harm done - I just won't waste any more time on this issue. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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