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[Nate Lawson]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:14:17PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> >On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, David O'Brien wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:08:35AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >   NO_TOOLCHAIN    skips Compilers and Binutils
> >> > >   NO_USB          skips USB stuff
> >> > >   NO_VINUM        skips Vinum stuff
> >> > >   NO_ACPI         skips ACPI stuff
> >> >
> >> > Great!  I was hoping this would be the outcome of the Minimalist FreeBSD
> >> > discussion.
> >>
> >> Was there a discussion somewhere that most of us missed?
> >
> >Hmm, missed it also.  In general I'm in favor of this but would prefer to
> >see these also defined under a single knob (MINIMAL?).
>
> I'd like to disagree here.  What you see as essential in a minimal
> system might be irrelevant to me and vice versa.  2.x PicoBSD was
> probably the first real attempt at 'minimal' and it came in four
> versions (including 'custom') to meet different requirements.  If you
> take something like PicoBSD as a minimal system, does the 'minimal'
> know give you the union or intersection of the various PicoBSD
> variants?  In the former case, you have something that's slightly more
> than minimal and in the latter case, you need to add a few more bits
> to reach a usable system.

Exactly.  You've followed my point to its logical conclusion which is that
before we go too far down this road, come up with a design.

-Nate