Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:56:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> 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: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009071353520.52638-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <200008301728.LAA17081@harmony.village.org>
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> 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. This problem will continue to shrink as our kernels become more modular. You could ship a minimalist kernel, and the necessary modules. Another option would be to provide some public kernel-building service, or an assortment of prebuilt kernels. On the note of shrinking stuff, I am wondering what, if anything, came of the previous discussion regarding the introduction of BUILD_TINY or similar defines? Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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