From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 11: 2:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B9437B43C for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:02:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA46198 for arch@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:02:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:02:33 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: build tools as separate distribution Message-ID: <20000830110233.C45964@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000830100126.D45710@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000830100126.D45710@dragon.nuxi.com> <200008301730.LAA17118@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200008301730.LAA17118@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:30:53AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:30:53AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20000830100126.D45710@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: > : On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:30:39PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > : > 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 > : > : You need to convince JKH (as release engineer). I was going to do this > : for 4.2, but he said no. > > I think we can do this for 5.0, however, since I think we can convince > him that it is a good idea. JKH said he plans on having sysinstall changed for 5.0 and true packages. Thus why he said it wasn't worth the effort in -current. I don't think he wanted to rock the boat in -stable. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message