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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:09:17 -0800
From:      Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
To:        Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, bright@hotjobs.com (Alfred Perlstein)
Cc:        sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, nate@mt.sri.com, bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)
Message-ID:  <199812170709.XAA06289@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
In-Reply-To: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> "Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)" (Dec 16,  9:21pm)

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On Dec 16,  9:21pm, Kevin Day wrote:
} Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)

} This really isn't my thing, but....
} 
} 'base' should be the bare minimum to get the system running. I spent a few
} days trying to get freebsd to fit on a 48MB flash cartridge. 

I even hacked the 2.1.x version of "make release" to not put cc and
friends in the "bin" part of the distribution (I put it in "compile"
instead) and added a button in sysinstall to install it separately if
desired.  I've got machines that I will never use to compile any code,
and I don't want anyone else compiling code on them either.  BTW, I
yanked out lpr, sendmail, uucp, and the r-commands as well.  Not
counting most of my local additions a fairly bare version of /usr
is about 33 MB.

Unfortunately it is a fairly major pain in the *ss to do this and
maintain it while tracking the official source tree, since you have
to keep doing "make release" and doing test installs which takes a
lot of time and is not much fun.

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