From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Sep 7 4:56: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6690237B424 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 04:56:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id NAA78964; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:56:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA52701; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:56:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:56:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Warner Losh Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: build tools as separate distribution In-Reply-To: <200008301728.LAA17081@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. This problem will continue to shrink as our kernels become more modular. You could ship a minimalist kernel, and the necessary modules. Another option would be to provide some public kernel-building service, or an assortment of prebuilt kernels. On the note of shrinking stuff, I am wondering what, if anything, came of the previous discussion regarding the introduction of BUILD_TINY or similar defines? Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message