From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 14: 5:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail2.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CA3537B424 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:05:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5422 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2000 21:05:49 -0000 Received: from du211167.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.211.167) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 30 Aug 2000 21:05:49 -0000 Message-ID: <39AD7714.E6D37422@mail.ptd.net> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:05:24 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: build tools as separate distribution References: <200008301728.LAA17081@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > 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 > : 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