Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:46:29 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> To: "stop here. start everywhere." <feedback@phpStop.com> Cc: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>, Frederik Meerwaldt <frederik@freddym.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <84356.972269189@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "stop here. start everywhere." <feedback@phpStop.com> of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:11:06 %2B0200." <39F3902A.6846BB49@phpStop.com>
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> Speaking of this subject again, I have read in the archives that FreeBSD > has a method of building the whole source tree using the "make world" > command. Although this is a nice feature, but isn't too much risky to > upgrade the whole system in one shot? Not anywhere near as "risky" as upgrading one component which n things depend on (without necessarily knowing this) and then having those n things start failing in mysterious and not-immediately-obvious ways. The make world target, on the other hand, knows the correct order to build things in so that interface or implementation changes are done in the correct order. > be dead. In Linux, on the contrary, there's no such feature and you'll Which is why things frequently break in not-immediately-obvious ways over there when people upgrade things piece-meal and in the incorrect order. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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