On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:07:06PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote.. > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : : The nature of the compromise over 'make world' was that rather than > removing > : : the knob we'd leave it undocumented so that new users aren't tempted to > use > : : it, but instead will revert to using buildworld/installworld as they > ought to > : : if they get a failure running 'make world'. If we are going to document > the > : : knob and thus make it user-supported, we might as well remove it and just > : : make 'make world' user-supported. > : > : The problem with making it 'user-supported' is that it really is a > : dangerous tool for the normal user. Sure, it mostly works, most of > : the time, for most situations. However, when it fails, it fails in an > : unsafe way. It fails in a way that can't be backed out from easily, > : meaning someone will have to boot distribution media to back out to a > : known good state. These events are rare, but totally [EMAIL > PROTECTED]@!!@@#$ the > : user. > : > : And we're back to the compromise that we had before... > > Unless we want to require I_KNOW_WORLD_CAN_HURT_ME instead of > HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD :-)
make world -DBEATMEBEATMEYEAH.. :-P Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
