Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:07:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com> To: blackend@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: rdm@cfcl.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/41253: config(8) and/or Handbook deficiency Message-ID: <200208021807.LAA24325@eskimo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020802194355.B54849@abigail.blackend.org> (message from Marc Fonvieille on Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:43:55 %2B0200)
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>In fact about that chapter, some people will want directly the commands >and others many explanations and guidelines, it is the problem of that >sort of subject. Yes, there are two kinds of people. Those who are recompiling the kernel to enable some option or another, and those who are recompiling the kernel because something in the kernel sources needed fixing/updating. The overall flow of the chapter is a sequence of blocks of the form: "Here is something complicated for you to read..... But if you aren't doing anything unusual you don't need to worry about it." At the end, after reading these two different ways to install the kernel, one of which is "traditional" (whatever that means) and the other of which is "new" (implying that traditions and old and new is unorthodox), you get: "If you have not upgraded your source tree in any way (you have not run CVSup, CTM, or used anoncvs), then you should use the config, make depend, make, make install sequence." It's kind of amusing really. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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