At 11:24 PM +0200 7/13/04, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >In message <20040713212056.GA82311_at_pit.databus.com>, Barney Wolff writes: > >On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:14:01PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > Could you please enlighten the rest of us as to when the > > sequence of operations performed by "make world" is a useful > > thing to do? > >I've said that already in earlier email: > make world DESTDIR=/some_jail a) how about if we print a warning and exit if DESTDIR is not defined? Are there "important" uses of `make world' which do not use DESTDIR? b) I still don't see how this would be hurt if the target had a different name. Yes, there is an issue of documentation, but I still think the following point is important: > > ... and I find it hard to imagine that happens often enough > > to weigh against the continual damage to new users from > > this deceptively inviting target. Yes, maybe it is the user's fault. That does not mean that the best action is for us to leave this foot-shooting, and deceptively inviting target the way it is. Every time I see some user with a system that was trashed from this target, I can't help but think that we should try to do SOMETHING about it. And if we leave behind a "make world" target which tells the user what is going on, then I do not agree that we must fix all 10**64 pages of documentation before we try to save users from trashing their own freebsd systems. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad_at_gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih_at_rpi.eduReceived on Tue Jul 13 2004 - 20:23:42 UTC
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