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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:14:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Why isn't sysinstall built with buildworld?
Message-ID:  <200007260514.WAA25549@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000725221754.A66861@localhost.localdomain> from "David J. Kanter" at "Jul 25, 2000 10:17:54 pm"

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David J. Kanter wrote:
> I know that make buildworld builds all the base binaries, but I've read that
> a program like sysinstall isn't built. What else out there isn't built
> during make buildworld?

sysinstall is the only one, AFAIK.
 
> Why isn't sysinstall built; isn't it a part of the base system?

Well, the real answer is that it probably _should_ be built with the rest
of the world and should probably move into sbin or some such.

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