Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:33:51 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: build tools as separate distribution Message-ID: <20000830123351.A29508@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200008301728.LAA17081@harmony.village.org>; from "Warner Losh" on Wed Aug 30 11:28:00 GMT 2000 References: <xzp3djn9h2o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200008301728.LAA17081@harmony.village.org>
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In the last episode (Aug 30), Warner Losh said: > In message <xzp3djn9h2o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > : What would the good people think of moving gcc, gas, ld etc., as well > : as include files and static libraries out of the bin dist and into a > : separate distribution, called e.g. prog or devel? There are a lot of > > I would like this idea. The up side is that it saves about 100MB of > space, iirc. The down side is that minimal is no longer able to > build a kernel, which is why they were in there to start with. The move to a modular kernel makes the need to recompile GENERIC less important than it used to be, so it's not that much of a loss. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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