From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 3:30:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4899B37B443 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 03:30:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA30280; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:30:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: build tools as separate distribution From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 30 Aug 2000 12:30:39 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What would the good people think of moving gcc, gas, ld etc., as well as include files and static libraries out of the bin dist and into a separate distribution, called e.g. prog or devel? There are a lot of cases (e.g. firewalls, mail gateways) where you neither need nor want build tools, and PicoBSD is sometimes too radical. This would provide a sort of middle path between the too-minimalist PicoBSD and the not-minimalist-enough bin dist we have today. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message