From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 6:48:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C787037B43F for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 06:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id GAA03996; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 06:48:17 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda03994; Wed Aug 30 06:48:02 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id GAA29793; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 06:48:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdl29791; Wed Aug 30 06:47:38 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e7UDlbh84409; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 06:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008301347.e7UDlbh84409@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdG84403; Wed Aug 30 06:47:02 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: build tools as separate distribution In-reply-to: Your message of "30 Aug 2000 12:30:39 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 06:47:02 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > 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. Excellent idea! Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message