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To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
Subject: Re: Moving Things [was Re: List of things to move from main tree] 
Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>,
	Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 02:02:22 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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Jordan,
	I'd like to point out that making FreeBSD more modular doesn't
necessarily mean that we have to change the policy we have hard coded
into the Makefiles.  We can and do subset things more easily than
that.  NetBSD builds everything during make build, but has a better
layering of system components than FreeBSD, for example.  I'm not
saying thta it is good or bad.  There are pros and cons to both ways.

	I have a kludge script that just install the minimal (for a
suitible definition of minimal) set of files on a target system.  I
doubt they rise to the level that they could be used for packageNG,
but stranger things have happened :-)

	You do make an excellent point that we do have this policy
hard coded into the make files.  We have limited support for
subsetting in the Makefiles.  We can support one set of subsetting for
the source upgrades and one class for the binary folks.  This may or
may not be desirable from a support point of view, but it is what we
already do now.

Warner


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