what happened to make world?

[Max Laier]

On Thursday 30 August 2007, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> # make world
> WARNING: make world will overwrite your existing FreeBSD
> installation without also building and installing a new
> kernel.  This can be dangerous.  Please read the handbook,
> 'Rebuilding world', for how to upgrade your system.
> Define DESTDIR to where you want to install FreeBSD,
> including /, to override this warning and proceed as usual.
> You may get the historical 'make world' behavior by defining
> HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD.  You should understand the implications
> before doing this.
>
> Bailing out now...
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
>
>
> Now, THIS is quite funny... do you really thing that a person with
> - root access
> - the knowledge of the existence of "make world"
> needs this sort of things?
>
> I didn't see anything about this new-wave-of-user-friendly-bsd going on
> the list.. have I missed something?

And your complaint would be ... what exactly?

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