Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 13:32:58 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: sos@FreeBSD.org Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, peter@spinner.dialix.com, peter@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/vi Makefile Message-ID: <25122.851981578@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Dec 1996 22:13:31 %2B0100." <199612302113.WAA00527@ravenock.cybercity.dk>
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> Ahem, I won't even comment on this, you all know my POV, but if > it should go in, PLEASE as little as possible.... > > What would the sentiment be if I made it possible to build > a FreeBSD-lite out of our sources, ie "make lite" ?? This seems to imply that you're taking a "standard" FreeBSD source/binary tree and removing things, which sounds backward. If you don't want something like perl5 in your system, you shouldn't load it in the first place, and solving this problem is really more a matter of further compartmentalizing the bin and src distributions so that it's possible for us to say that. If we give the user the facilities necessary for sub-selecting a FreeBSD installation to that degree, we can make "FreeBSD, the superset" essentially as large as we want. I still wouldn't want to make it *too* large, since developers still bear the brunt of grabbing the whole thing, but I think we've nonetheless got to admit to ourselves that we're only going to continue to add software to the system as it evolves. That's OK, just so long as we make it also possible for the minimalists to pick and choose only the components they need. The bin distribution has always been too big, and I think we've always known that. Garrett had some ideas for subsecting it which I didn't like, but only because of where he drew the lines, not because he drew them. I'd also more than welcome a wider discussion on breaking this into smaller logical pieces since I think there are probably as many distinct points of view on that as there are core team members. :-) Jordan
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