cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile src/lib Makefile src/sbin Makefile src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.sbin Makefile

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030829090446.44583A-100000 at fledge.watson.org>
            Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: I was somewhat hopeful that a further outcome might be that Makefiles are
: scattered around containing fields like:
: 
: COMPONENT=	ACPI
: COMPONENT=	OPENSSL
: 
: so that individual Makefiles would contain positive assertions about what
: they are, meaning that the Makefile infrastructure could later be tweaked
: to do installs of only those components...

I'm not completely sure that marking things to this level would be
completely useful.  I went down that path at one point, but to create
a bootable system, you need such an eclectic list of things...  There
should be a better concept of things.  We have identified a minimal
list of things to have to boot rc files (I haven't redone this for 5)
and then the minimal network utilities.

I guess I'm saying that packaging is hard and to do simple things is
easy, but will lead to a big mess if we aren't careful.

Warner