On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 03:26:59AM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Are you beginning to suggest doing partial updates in general to the system?
>
> I suggest nothing, I just try to provide full information to enable
> whatever choices people might want to make. If you are not already
> interested in building the hurd yourself and doing delicate updates by
> hand, then by all means just wait for Marcus to upload a new debian package
> of the new hurd code. There are at least a few people who I expect might
> want to test the new fixes themselves, including Marcus before he makes the
> new package for everyone else to use.
That's fine, and I feel quite comfortable doing so. I do remember,
however, when I sent in patches to allow the administrator to only
compile filesystems that (s)he intended to use, the patch was rejected
because you wanted us to make sure that we compiled all of the Hurd at
once. I want to make sure that what I do meets current Best Practice(tm).
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Do not meddle in the affairs of cyborgs for you are conductive and
can support 110 volts.
