From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 13 15:52:11 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0214416A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:52:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBECF43D41 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:52:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 4AB1C149D2; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:52:10 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:52:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon X-X-Sender: linimon@pancho To: Alexander Leidinger In-Reply-To: <20050413174316.9sygl52600ksgo88@netchild.homeip.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Mark Linimon cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: cleanup of linux ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:52:11 -0000 On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > "rh-7" isn't allowed as per the documentation of USE_LINUX. The point that I am trying to make is that assuming that everyone will always use only allowed values (e.g. not make a typo) introduces an unneeded fragility. This is assuming they even read the documentation at all, or that if they do, they don't miss this. After being shot in the foot with this kind of bullet thousands of times over the years, I am quite sensitive to it :-) mcl