CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Jul 13 13:16:35 PDT 2004


In message <16628.15376.651824.540615 at ran.psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:
>> And your argument here is that people are reciprocally less likely
>> to hose (or as it may be: not hose) their systems because the have
>> to type 27 characters more to do so ?
>
>let me ask a different question.  what is the need for 'make world'?

It is mentioned in approximately 22900 hits on google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22make+world%22+freebsd&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

We are not going to rename /dev/null either.

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