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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:45:06 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com>
To:        Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...
Message-ID:  <20010212164506.C3038@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010212162004.A9106@zippy.mybox.zip>; from jazepeda@pacbell.net on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:20:04PM -0800
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010212170101.11435B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <200102122220.f1CMKUm01666@mass.dis.org> <20010212162004.A9106@zippy.mybox.zip>

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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:20:04PM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> How is this more acceptable than bumping the major number?  Are they
> really so precious that they can only be incremented once for a release
> cycle?  

Yes.  I don't want to be in a position where we wonder what happened to
libc.so.5 when I don't see it in my /usr/lib/ or /usr/lib/compat/

> Seems to me that a new major number is far cleaner than a gross hack.

I am very against this.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


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