From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 10:35:37 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 1BD4037B43C for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:35:35 -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 LAA98813; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:35:30 -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 LAA17243; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:35:09 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008301735.LAA17243@harmony.village.org> To: Dan Nelson Subject: Re: build tools as separate distribution Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , arch@FreeBSD.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> <200008301728.LAA17081@harmony.village.org> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:35:09 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000830123351.A29508@dan.emsphone.com> Dan Nelson writes: : In the last episode (Aug 30), Warner Losh said: : > In message 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