Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:51:19 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: gnn@FreeBSD.org, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Summary: experiences with NanoBSD, successes and nits on a Soekris 4801 Message-ID: <p0621021dbedbfa4dd5ff@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <m2br613i8n.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> References: <20050619155228.Y6413@fledge.watson.org> <66959.1119209763@critter.freebsd.dk> <m2br613i8n.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
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At 10:54 AM +0900 6/20/05, gnn@freebsd.org wrote: >At Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:36:03 +0200, >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >> I'm still not satisfied with the nanobsd config/customize process, >> ideally I would want to have only a single file with a sensible > > format control the nanobsd build process. > >If I may jump in here. One way to do the build up vs. cut down thing >is to break up more of the system into understandable chunks, but that >takes work. Then it's easier to build up a system from components. > >I'll take a look at nanonbsd hopefully this week anyways, as I need >to get it running in a VM as well as on a Soekris at home. I make no >promises. The last system I worked with that did a componentization >got it very very wrong. Another thing I was thinking about was that we could have more components which trim themselves down based on #defines for something like MINIMALIST_USER or MINIMALIST_USERBIN . I almost tried that with the recent changes to `env', for instance. The new options I added are very nice, but they do add something like 20%-40% to the size of the executable. And someone putting together a minimal system could easily avoid writing scripts that need the new options. If a user could set one #define to cause all programs in /usr/bin to shrink by 10-15%, that might be valuable. Not sure we could get that much, or if we would want to support that idea as time goes on. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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