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Date:      Fri, 26 Nov 2021 11:19:11 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>,  FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Retiring WITHOUT_CXX
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On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 11:04 AM Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
wrote:

> For any embedded systems the WITHOUT_* have never been enough and there
> are way
> to build a very very tiny viable FreeBSD image in an industrial manner
> which are
> way more efficient that the WITHOUT KNOBS. I am not saying we should stop
> providing those, just we should stop maintaining the one that makes no
> sense
> anymore or are very complicated to maintain.
>

Has anybody ever done the radical experiment of instrumenting a 'fat'
system with
filemon to see everything that's used/touched during operations and
tailoring lists
of files to include based on that (plus maybe some white listing for things
like supported locales)?

Warner


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