CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE
Drew Broadley
drew at corrupt.co.nz
Tue Jul 13 15:19:52 PDT 2004
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> If you sit back for a moment and think about the number of barriers
>
>a user must already scale to get to the point of typing "make world",
>then I think you will see that adding 27 extra characters is not
>going to change anything. In particular not when compared the the
>number of places we have to change (to the extent we can) documentation
>which mentions "make world".
>
>You might as well try to change the shape of the carinals hats.
>
>
>
It's about breaking habits (humans are cronic for retaining bad ones).
I see his point, it's just a little to in the end stop a lot of confusion.
If you are so much so complaining about the lack of 27 extra characters
typed by users/admins, I'm very sure it isn't that much more effort to
put in the addition of 27+ characters to the Makefile for the developers
to make a safety net for people whom are accustomed to "make world".
This will remind them with a high level of VERBOSE, that they need to
read /usr/src/UPDATING.
My two cents.
- Drew
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