cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile src/lib Makefile src/sbin
Makefile src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.sbin Makefile
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 29 08:14:34 PDT 2003
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 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.
Well, where we currently sit is that we've identified a set of
semi-optional components -- areas where we've already done some
build/install partitioning. Let's just slightly enhance the
infrastructure around the existing identifications, and not get too caught
up in identifying new partitioning -- partioning and dependencies are
hard.
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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