From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 10:34:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACCB37B423 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:34:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA12743; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:33:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:33:51 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Warner Losh Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: build tools as separate distribution Message-ID: <20000830123351.A29508@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200008301728.LAA17081@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.7i In-Reply-To: <200008301728.LAA17081@harmony.village.org>; from "Warner Losh" on Wed Aug 30 11:28:00 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Aug 30), Warner Losh said: > In message 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