On Friday, 9 June 2006 at 8:53:47 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 20:48, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 7 June 2006 at 10:51:45 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >>> I thought the obfuscation was intentional as very few people should >>> be doing a 'make world' without a custom DESTDIR these days. >> >> Then there's no reason not to document it. >> >> Warning: FORCE_ROOT_INSTALL can render your system unusable by >> overwriting existing configuration files. Do not use it unless you >> are completely aware of the consequences. >> >> And yes, a descriptive name like FORCE_ROOT_INSTALL, not >> HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD. > > Describing it would subvert the intended obfuscation.
s/subvert/correct/ Obfuscation is always wrong. >> The only justification for this regression is that it's really >> difficult to get everything right. But that's a bug, not a >> feature. > > No, the justification is that 'make world' completely ignores the > kernel and only handles userland, and an operating system is both a > kernel and a userland and that users should update those together. That's a bug in make world. Introducing a second one doesn't fix it. > If you as a developer want to use make world you can either run the > two commands back to back or you can put > I_REALLY_KNOW_WHAT_IM_DOING_AND_WANT_TO_HOSE_MY_MACHINE in make.conf > or something. However, developers wanting to do this are in the > _VAST_ minority and I'd much rather cater to the other 99% of the > world. As I say, >> The only justification for this regression is that it's really >> difficult to get everything right. Otherwise people would have fixed it. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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