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> On 21 Nov 2014, at 19:01, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:
> 
> Mark Murray wrote this message on Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 18:35 +0000:
>>> If you're really going for small embeded, you don't want FreeBSD,
>> 
>> Who are you to tell me what I want? ;-)
> 
> So, after sleeping on it, I think the more sane way to go is to create
> a STANDARD (or better named) kernel config file in sys/conf that is
> always included by config...  Then things like random can be included
> here, and it allows the adventurous to use nodevice and nooption to
> disable...
> 
> This has the added benifit that other options that are now "standard"
> could be made optional with a bit of work, and those that try to reduce
> the kernel config could impore their changes for others w/o breaking
> things for the rest of us...
> 
> Thoughts on this?

I like it! :-)

M
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Mark R V Murray