From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 15 04:08:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA29021 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 04:08:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cockatoo.aus.org (hendrix@cockatoo.aus.org [199.166.246.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29000 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:08:30 GMT (envelope-from hendrix@cockatoo.aus.org) Received: from localhost (hendrix@localhost) by cockatoo.aus.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA08777 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 07:08:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hendrix@cockatoo.aus.org) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 07:08:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Luke H." To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: asbestos suited static vi In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Maybe just have a port/package that installs a static vi to /bin? > That was my plan. > A binary packagee, with all the termcap db's etc that we need, and > possibly a source patch so you could jsut make world par regular and > you'll have a static vi in /bin. > Possibly branching out into FreeBSD/static, with static tcsh, static bash, > static party hats, static cling, etc. > An insane flight of fantasy I know, but it's a direction that a lot of > people will have a use for one piece or another of. hey arent static binaries faster, just bigger? there should be an option for make.conf to build the whole of usr/src static :). that aside I think it would be fairly easy to make a vi package that installs to /bin, maybe make a note in a readme in the sysinstall help about it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message