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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:02:57 -0200
From:      Jean Milanez Melo <jmelo@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
To:        Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.org, Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Handling non-standard directories in tinybsd
Message-ID:  <453F5271.70309@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <20061025104306.GI20405@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
References:  <20061024100641.GB20405@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <453DE863.7070305@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <20061024115727.GD20405@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <453E1FBC.5060700@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <20061025104306.GI20405@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>

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Jeremie Le Hen wrote: to workdir. Suggestions?
> 
> Well, this is a neat idea.  However I think this is not homogeneous in
> regard to the current behaviour of TinyBSD: while the base system would
> still be included on a per-file basis, library dependencies being
> brought in automatically, using pkg_add(1) for third-party apps would
> lead to include the whole package, including manpages, documentation,
> configuration files along with the binaries.  Moreover, this may not be
> a desirable behaviour for an embedded system.
> 

Yes, but my idea was install it on temporary directory and remove all 
unnecessary files.

> My feeling is that TinyBSD has used the KISS principle so far.  The code
> as well as the configuration is somewhat raw (no offence here), but it is
> thereby easy to use, debug and modify at needs.  I am going to code this
> in my source tree this afternoon and I will be glad to provide you the
> patch.
> 

That's right, make tinybsd simpler is really our idea :)

Send to me your patch and i'll take a look.

Thanks
Jean



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