Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:35:09 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: build tools as separate distribution Message-ID: <200008301735.LAA17243@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:33:51 CDT." <20000830123351.A29508@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000830123351.A29508@dan.emsphone.com> <xzp3djn9h2o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200008301728.LAA17081@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20000830123351.A29508@dan.emsphone.com> Dan Nelson writes: : In the last episode (Aug 30), Warner Losh said: : > In message <xzp3djn9h2o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: : > : 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 : > : > I would like this idea. The up side is that it saves about 100MB of : > space, iirc. The down side is that minimal is no longer able to : > build a kernel, which is why they were in there to start with. : : The move to a modular kernel makes the need to recompile GENERIC less : important than it used to be, so it's not that much of a loss. Yes. However, the move to a more more modular kernel still has a ways to go. GENERIC is still too big a pigdog, and some of the "base" device drivers still need to be modularized. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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