On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:42:50PM +0000, Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:30:10PM +0400, Alexey Slynko wrote: > >>===> usr.bin/vi (bootstrap-tools) > >Because the bootstrap phase has to use the bootstrap phase :-) > > Maybe this sounds stupid, but why is vi a bootstrap tool? Especially > considering that vi is already installed on all systems DragonFlyBSD is > able to build on?
I'd guess ex(1) is the reason. We want to have a consistent build system, so the number of tools we use from the build host is tried to kept minimal. Joerg
