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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:42:47 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile src/lib Makefile src/sbin Makefile src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.sbin Makefile 
Message-ID:  <14641.1062182567@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:37:59 PDT." <20030829183759.GA68755@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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In message <20030829183759.GA68755@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:08:35AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> >   NO_TOOLCHAIN    skips Compilers and Binutils
>> >   NO_USB          skips USB stuff
>> >   NO_VINUM        skips Vinum stuff
>> >   NO_ACPI         skips ACPI stuff
>> 
>> Great!  I was hoping this would be the outcome of the Minimalist FreeBSD
>> discussion.
>
>Was there a discussion somewhere that most of us missed?

I didn't participate in any discussion, I just used my sound judgement
to make it possible to cut out various bits people are unlikely to put
on 64MB CompactFlash cards.

Thanks the dynamic root stuff it is now (again) possible to put a
FreeBSD 5-current on a 64MB card, missing nothing significant in
firewall like applications.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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