On Monday, 12 June 2006 at 8:49:56 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 09 June 2006 20:57, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 9 June 2006 at 8:53:47 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >>> On Wednesday 07 June 2006 20:48, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> Obfuscation is always wrong. > > Not in this case.
There's only one value of "always. Obfuscation is always wrong. >>>> The only justification for this regression is that it's really >>>> difficult to get everything right. >> >> Otherwise people would have fixed it. > > No, you aren't reading what I'm saying. In fact, it's the other way round. You're not understanding what *I* am saying. The real issue here is distinguishing between a feature and bug that is difficult to fix. > The justification is a _fundamental_ _design_ FLAW in how 'make > world' works. You can't just patch around that. You can't force > 'make world' to boot up a new kernel for you that will work with the > new userland you are about to install. Why not? This is in fact pretty much what System V does in a slightly different situation. It's not done well, but as I said, it's difficult. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
pgpFlYzUqTflq.pgp
Description: PGP signature
