What is proper process for source installs?

[Peter Steele]

> By the way, I beleive a good part of /etc is installed/reinstalled by 
> a make installworld and/or mergemaster.

I should have clarified my scenario better. I am building a BSD image from scratch, as part of an automated process. I am not updating an existing system. I had been doing this by installing the base collection, plus our custom kernel (as well as man pages and various packages). Now that we are also building "world", I don't need to install the base collection from the binary release. At least not everything in it. What *do* I need? Obviously etc and the copyright notice. Anything else?