print HEADSUP at installworld time? (was: HEADSUP gconcat(8) and gstripe(8) users!)

[Matthias Andree]

Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> +> I wonder if "make installworld" should display such warnings (or head
> +> /usr/src/UPDATING FWIW) and give the user a chance to abort the
> +> installation.
>
> First of all, I don't think there are many gstripe/gconcat users out there.
>
> Gstripe as well as gconcat was introduced after 5.2.1 - there was no
> FreeBSD release with this code.
>
> That's why I think this is not necessary, this is -CURRENT and user can
> always fix his /etc/fstab on boot.

OK, not for gstripe/gconcat then, but I'm wondering if a mechanism to
print such announcements would generally be useful. Changing subject.

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