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John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: The nature of the compromise over 'make world' was that rather than removing
: the knob we'd leave it undocumented so that new users aren't tempted to use
: it, but instead will revert to using buildworld/installworld as they ought to
: if they get a failure running 'make world'. If we are going to document the
: knob and thus make it user-supported, we might as well remove it and just
: make 'make world' user-supported.
The problem with making it 'user-supported' is that it really is a
dangerous tool for the normal user. Sure, it mostly works, most of
the time, for most situations. However, when it fails, it fails in an
unsafe way. It fails in a way that can't be backed out from easily,
meaning someone will have to boot distribution media to back out to a
known good state. These events are rare, but totally [EMAIL PROTECTED]@!!@@#$
the
user.
And we're back to the compromise that we had before...
Warner
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