> Note also that keeping a customized version of the kernel source locally is > completely unacceptable.
You keep saying that, but that doesn't make it true. It's actually very common for people to keep customized versions of source in /sys/src. When you pull, if one of those files is new then you have to diff it and make the changes by hand, then run pull -c to tell replica that you've taken care of that. It's not hard. Russ
