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Date:      Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:21:53 -0800
From:      Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel configuration
Message-ID:  <20040326202153.GC1948@cs025_2k>
In-Reply-To: <20040326194319.GA28352@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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* Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> [2004-03-26 11:57]:
> [ kernel modules ]
> 
> If you put NO_MODULES=true into /etc/make.conf, then you'll only get
> the kernel build.  You won't get any extra loadable modules.

Got it.  Thank you.  On my workstations, where resources are
plentiful, I suppose it doesn't matter much to have all of the kernel
modules built and installed, but on resource-scant or single-purpose
machines (ie firewall/router), it seems that it would be somewhat
significant to exclude them.  Others' feedback?

-- 
Joshua

What kind of love is that?  Not to be loved; never to have shown love.
		-- Commissioner Nancy Hedford, "Metamorphosis",
		   stardate 3219.8



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