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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:54:53 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Johan Karlsson <johan@freebsd.org>
Cc:        small@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "nanobsd" prototype 
Message-ID:  <59081.1079092493@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:52:02 %2B0100." <20040312115202.GA98578@numeri.campus.luth.se> 

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In message <20040312115202.GA98578@numeri.campus.luth.se>, Johan Karlsson write
s:
>On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 16:04 (-0700) +0000, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>> In message: <52729.1079033952@critter.freebsd.dk>
>>             "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>> : I want nanobsd to use the normal build/installworld targets, but feel
>> : free to prune your system in the Customize target.
>> 
>> Maybe it is time to have a generic way to include/exclude directories
>> from installworld, but not buildworld.
>
>We kind of have this already
>
># make buildworld
># make installworld SUBDIR_OVERRIDE='dirs to include'
>
>I guess it would be trivial to add a new variable
>SUBDIR_OVERRIDE_INSTALL that only affects the installworld
>target if you need to put in make.conf.

While this may technically be a possibility, it is a lousy userinterface
to the FreeBSD hacker who's trying to configure an embedded system.

I think the NO_FOO principle of functional exclusion is far more
user friendly.

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