System Tree essentials UNDERSTANDING the system

[Sandro Noel.]

Nathan, 
thank you for the pointer, unfortunately, it does not help me.
and i've tried it, the scripts are great, and i actualy use the mklibs.pl script 
the one that walks the tree and pick's up the libraries on the way, it's a very nice script to have :)

You see my ultimate goal is to build my system; sleek, slim, and polished, with strictly only what is needed to fill the task.
but I also do not want to forget anything, in the sense that i couldforget a configuration file that would cause the system to work ondefault values, and notice it later when i bump into a problem, so ineed to understand it as much as possible.

what i need are pointers to hard to find documentation about the building blocks of the system.(maybe it does not exist)
Not the architecture, i've read it, and it helps in understanding theinner mecanics, but then again that is way to deep for my needs.
and it's not the handbook either, read that too, and while it is great for a user perspective, it's to shalow for my needs.
I am not talking about the man page for a perticular application, thatis way to specific, tough it's somewhat sometimes usefull to figure outthe configuration options and the configuration files that shouldfollow, but there not always acurate.

I need something in the middle.

more like on the lines of , 
the basic core system is the kernel and this and that file, this configuration and that setting.
for the modules you need to include this nad configure that, and here are some options.
if you want to add networking to the core system, you need to add these files, and configura this and that.
if you want IPV6 then you need this and that, and you need to configure this and that file.

Mainly the information would not leave the scope of the core system, 
I do not need more info on how to install samba or Xorg, 
That info is available all over the place, and BSD makes it really painless to install them anyways.

I'm sure, or at least i hope i'm not the only one who would like such documentation.

Thank you Nathan.

Sandro Noel.

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