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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 07:15:52 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com>
To:        W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TinyBSD kit progress report 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007250707050.8718-100000@lepton.subatomix.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007250804.BAA06013@mindspring.com>

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> > > It seems to me that it would be a lot more interesting to have the
> > > ports/build frameworks set up to accomodate building "these things"
> > > out of the src/ tree.
> > > ...
> > > ports/itsybsd anyone?  :-)
> 
> > Interesting idea, but there are some things about small freebsd kits
> > that are tightly coupled to the underlying system.  
> 
> Exactly and it's just this coupling I would like to see our collective
> energies invested into removing instead of heading down the path of
> a redux of our picobsd experience.
> 
> Some time ago I submitted an experimental patch which allowed ports to
> fetch their sources via CVS.  This allows the construction of aribitrary
> source trees from divergent branches and possibly even from other projects.
> I used this ugly little hack for my own small-freebsd variant (FleaBSD)

Now that sounds like a good idea.  I still think that being in src is a
good idea, too, if handled properly administratively.  But now I can't
decide which one I like better... :)

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Jeffrey S. Sharp   (XorAxAx)
jss@subatomix.com

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