> Speaking of this subject again, I have read in the archives that FreeBSD
> has a method of building the whole source tree using the "make world"
> command. Although this is a nice feature, but isn't too much risky to
> upgrade the whole system in one shot?
Not anywhere near as "risky" as upgrading one component which n things
depend on (without necessarily knowing this) and then having those n
things start failing in mysterious and not-immediately-obvious ways.
The make world target, on the other hand, knows the correct order to
build things in so that interface or implementation changes are done
in the correct order.
> be dead. In Linux, on the contrary, there's no such feature and you'll
Which is why things frequently break in not-immediately-obvious ways
over there when people upgrade things piece-meal and in the incorrect
order. :)
- Jordan
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