Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@sibyte.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/08/2000 21:20:39
cgd@sibyte.com (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
> the 'kernel install' change is losing for a couple of reasons:
> 
> (1) it'd be Really Nice if sites could easily override the defaults
> for all of their machines.  e.g. at my site, i'd always set
> /etc/mk.conf to say 'false' for the install target, since i really
> don't want the kernels to ever be installed even if i accidentally say
> 'make install'.  To do that currently, you need N lines in
> /etc/mk.conf where N is possibly quite large.  add a new machine type
> and forget to add the mk.conf line, you lose.

Indeed, I would prefer to HAVE to turn this feature on, rather than
having to turn it off....

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