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[Garrett Cooper]

On Sep 21, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:14:36PM -0400, Darrel wrote:
>> 
>>> Welcome to the wonderful world that no one knows how UPDATING works anymore...
>>> -Garrett
>>> 
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> Assholes [ pardon me] that they tend to be, with many exceptions- the 
>> steps would have been included in an OpenBSD update that required portions
>> of the tree to be recompiled.
>> 
> 
> You should always rebuild the tree in its entirety when upgrading.
> Plus, if you are running -CURRENT, you should expect some things to
> break on occasion.  While those cases are not intentional, they do
> happen.

Should is the operable word. If one does something that affects a non-niche group, it's a wise idea to use updating as it was supposed to be used. As it stands updating is neither used nor abused.
Thanks,
-Garrett