On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:47:36PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > Herbert Xu (2001-04-22 22:23:04 +1000) : > > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > that would be one package, taking maybe a few hundred kilobytes > > > total. call it kernel-helper and make it depend on > > > kernel-package. problem solved. > > > > But why not take this one step further, let's just distribute what's > > in build-essential and let the users compile the rest. Let's rewind > > the clock back to times when men were men, and they compiled > > everything on their own box :) > > Nonono, we should automate it as much as possible. I envision a > global Makefile somewhere, and a ports/ directory, and a > make-world.sh, and... And then Debian GNU/BSD! Yay!
or convince linus that the SunOS way is the one true way. edit a file in /etc (call it linux.rc) that has the kernel tweaks. next boot, the kernel recompiles itself. whadayasay? -john