Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:05:24 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> 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: <39AD7714.E6D37422@mail.ptd.net> References: <xzp3djn9h2o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200008301728.LAA17081@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > 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 > : cases (e.g. firewalls, mail gateways) where you neither need nor want > : build tools, and PicoBSD is sometimes too radical. This would provide > : a sort of middle path between the too-minimalist PicoBSD and the > : not-minimalist-enough bin dist we have today. > > 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. Perhaps distributions could have an uninstall mechanism, analogous to pkg_delete, so that the build tools could be easily removed after a new kernel is built. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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