Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 01:16:53 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: mdean <mdean@best.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: group assignments from make world. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971008011513.12230A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.95.971007231047.18695C-100000@shellx.best.com>
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On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, mdean wrote: > > > > No offense to Matthew intended, but people really need to start using > > this feature more as it's really kinda starting to suck that every > > time we have a bootstrapping issue like this, it generates hundreds of > > identical questions for months. :-( > > Perhaps this could be made more active. You could put updated docs in the > source tree during cvsup about these little points, then part of make world > could be to interactively read the little notes that haven't been read to > date, eh? Prob wouldn't go over too well; I know I start a make world before I go to bed, and I'd rather not have it get 1/10 of the way thru, and I don't find out until I get home from work the next day, and waste a whole day doing a several hour task. But it WOULD be effective... Although it could quickly become about as effective as warnings in /etc/motd. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * FreeBSD: turning PCs into workstations * | Windows: turning workstations into typewriters | * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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