From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 10:31:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502C337B424; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA98762; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:31:15 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA17118; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:30:53 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008301730.LAA17118@harmony.village.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: build tools as separate distribution Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:01:26 PDT." <20000830100126.D45710@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20000830100126.D45710@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:30:53 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000830100126.D45710@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: : On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:30:39PM +0200, 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 : : You need to convince JKH (as release engineer). I was going to do this : for 4.2, but he said no. I think we can do this for 5.0, however, since I think we can convince him that it is a good idea. However, I think that someone will need to come up with patches to sysinstall. Also, there's likely some UI issues with minimal changing from "complete for a hosting system" to "incomplete for a hosting system, but complete for a target system." Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message