request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT

Gary Jennejohn gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Wed Nov 18 12:53:43 UTC 2009


On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:44:12 +0200
Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at gmail.com> wrote:

> > WHy not just build from source?
> 
> Because expecting users to build from source to install or update
> their systems in the year 2009 is an outdated concept, this is why we
> have freebsd-update in the first place.
> 

This is such a load of BS I could fertilize 100 acres with it.

In this day of inexpensive computers with fast mulit-core CPUs and
gigabytes of memory this argument is completely lame.

Fifteen years ago I would have agreed, because it took days to build
world and the kernel.  Been there, done that.

---
Gary Jennejohn


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