From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 6 07:15:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA22775 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 07:15:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pdx1.world.net (pdx1.world.net [192.243.32.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA22769 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 07:15:35 -0700 (PDT) From: proff@suburbia.net Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by pdx1.world.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA03341 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 07:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6464 invoked by uid 110); 6 Apr 1997 14:15:02 -0000 Message-ID: <19970406141502.6463.qmail@suburbia.net> Subject: Re: ipfilter compilation In-Reply-To: <19970406150753.SQ24384@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Apr 6, 97 03:07:53 pm" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 00:15:02 +1000 (EST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As proff@suburbia.net wrote: > > > I don't see that outside references are a problem, provided the > > user is kept aware of them. > > That's probably the best solution to handle src/contrib code for > kernel-land, yes. But it makes packaging the distributions harder. > Right now, it's sufficient to install the `ssys' distribution if you > wanna rebuild your kernel. If we simply reference through > ../../contrib in sys/conf/files, this will require the luser to > install the entire contrib distribution bloat as it stands now. > > -- > cheers, J"org Anyone object to src/sys_contrib then? In cases like ipfilter it would still contain user-land kernel support code, but this would be quite reasonable size-wise compared to src/contrib. Cheers, Julian -- Prof. Julian Assange |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks proff@suburbia.net |and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery