Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:54:52 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: deischen@freebsd.org Cc: phk@phk.freebsd.dk, rwatson@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Summary: experiences with NanoBSD, successes and nits on a Soekris 4801 Message-ID: <20050620.125452.102654445.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0506191610170.7472-100000@sea.ntplx.net> References: <66959.1119209763@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.GSO.4.43.0506191610170.7472-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
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Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes:
: On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
:
: > In message <20050619155228.Y6413@fledge.watson.org>, Robert Watson writes:
: >
: > >I general, I was quite pleased with the experience. NanoBSD is fairly
: > >straight forward to configre and adapt.
: >
: > I'm still not satisfied with the nanobsd config/customize process,
: > ideally I would want to have only a single file with a sensible
: > format control the nanobsd build process.
: >
: > The major obstacle is the "cutting things down to size" process
: > using NO_FOO options.
: >
: > In order to get down a 31MB partition size things have to be cut
: > very extensively and not even the NO_FOO options is enough at that
: > level but sniper rm(1) commands are necessary.
: >
: > I think the NO_FOO options is the best compromize, but we need them
: > to be more aligned to user concepts, "I don't need a compiler and
: > all that", rather than "Don't build the C++ compiler and hobble
: > the build because of this".
:
: How about NO_FOO[_INSTALL], where NO_FOO = no build and no install,
: and NO_FOO_INSTALL just prevents the install. In theory, you could
: build the complete system, then use NO_FOO_INSTALL instead of rm(1).
What's wrong with making sure that NO_FOO will work in the install
case to not install foo when it is set, even if it was unset in the
build process?
Warner
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