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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:40:07 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile src/lib Makefile src/sbin Makefile src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.sbin Makefile
Message-ID:  <20030829194007.GA69823@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030829121043.K43708@root.org>
References:  <200308291035.h7TAZ1Wm008611@repoman.freebsd.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030829090446.44583A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20030829183759.GA68755@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030829121043.K43708@root.org>

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On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:14:17PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:08:35AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> > > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > >
> > > >   NO_TOOLCHAIN    skips Compilers and Binutils
> > > >   NO_USB          skips USB stuff
> > > >   NO_VINUM        skips Vinum stuff
> > > >   NO_ACPI         skips ACPI stuff
> > >
> > > Great!  I was hoping this would be the outcome of the Minimalist FreeBSD
> > > discussion.
> >
> > Was there a discussion somewhere that most of us missed?
> 
> Hmm, missed it also.  In general I'm in favor of this but would prefer to
> see these also defined under a single knob (MINIMAL?).

I disagree that it should be a single (MINIMAL(sp?)) knob.  But that
there should be more discussion about it.  If you have NO_TOOLCHAIN set,
I can't think of a reason to have /usr/include or /usr/lib/*.a populated;
for instance.



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