Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 19:50:53 -0400 From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@cola68.scsn.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.7 and COMPAT_43 Message-ID: <19970513195053.18174@cola68.scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970513192757.17572B-100000@hps>; from Richard Toren on Tue, May 13, 1997 at 07:30:18PM -0400 References: <19970513180141.36385@cola68.scsn.net> <Pine.SUN.3.91.970513192757.17572B-100000@hps>
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On Tue, May 13, 1997 at 07:30:18PM -0400, Richard Toren wrote:
> Have you never bought a new car? They invented the concept of the
> "required option". I once worked for Ford Aerospace, and it was
> always a joke that we needed a dedicated computer system to keep the
> required options straight, and the customer confused....
But is that _our_ goal as well? Wouldn't it be better just to build
required parts of the kernel unconditionally, and thereby avoid giving
new users one more way to shoot themselves in the foot?
--
Donald J. Maddox
(dmaddox@scsn.net)
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