From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 8: 5: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7059F37B424 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newsguy.com (p57-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.122]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id AAA10947; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 00:04:55 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39AD2111.C7F0F782@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 23:58:25 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: build tools as separate distribution References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > 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. IMHO, and as an hibernating committer, this would be good. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@white.bunnies.bsdconspiracy.net OK, so the solar flares are my fault.. I am sorry, ok?!?! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message