Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:00:29 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, 'freebsd-arch' <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Retiring in-tree GDB Message-ID: <20151021000029.GB24405@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <1445377905.99375.22.camel@freebsd.org> References: <2678091.es0AGJQ0Ou@ralph.baldwin.cx> <5626B15C.4080408@FreeBSD.org> <1445377905.99375.22.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 03:51:45PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > This just-won't-die meme that a "functional system" is nothing more > than a bare kernel and an init binary and everything else comes from > ports is extra-scary I think this is an exaggeration. IMHO it's a legitimate question to ask, "what is a minimal base system". Note: I (have to) use debian at work. I was given the task "figure out what parts of all this mess were installed by what, and which ones we even need in the first place". I do not want to go there. It took me days to do the forensics, and then script a build-from-scratch mode. I do think we can ask "how many people need the test suite" and "how many people need 3 firewalls". I do not think we can ask "how many people need the base compiler". Well, if asked, answered: all of them, if we want to keep being FreeBSD. mcl
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