Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 5 Jun 1997 03:19:54 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970605031723.3370A-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net>
In-Reply-To: <199706042316.JAA16937@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, David Nugent wrote:

> Yes. it's kind of nice to be able to build your hello world program
> and ports on a newly installed FreeBSD box without having to also
> install kernel sources. Otherwise, we should leave installation of
> the entire compiler kit out unless /sys is also installed (which is
> actually pretty typical of any Linux installation, and I hated it
> there too). None of this may be obvious to the end-user, which is
> why it should remain as it is.

This method make troubles if you plan to install kernel sources over
installed release such as kernel & usr/include files mismatch.
Why not to install only needed part of /sys, not whole kernel?

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@null.net>
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.970605031723.3370A-100000>