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Date:      Sat, 14 Mar 1998 21:50:12 +1100 (EST)
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: binutils bloat
Message-ID:  <199803141050.VAA18125@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <7814.889871357@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 14, 98 02:29:17 am"

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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> Oh, I dunno about that...  You might find yourself with some powerful
> backers on this proposal - the technical elegance of being able to say
> "I'd like executables for platform foo please", especially with
> FreeBSD planning to go both Alpha and Sparc in the hopefully
> not-too-distant future, is still compelling and disk drive prices are
> still falling. :)

I like the idea of being able to pick up a CD with all the supported
tools installed. So if we do this, are you prepared to build all
for releases, even though they might not be enabled by default?

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137

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