Handling non-standard directories in tinybsd
Jean Milanez Melo
jmelo at freebsdbrasil.com.br
Wed Oct 25 13:03:25 UTC 2006
Jeremie Le Hen wrote: to workdir. Suggestions?
>
> Well, this is a neat idea. However I think this is not homogeneous in
> regard to the current behaviour of TinyBSD: while the base system would
> still be included on a per-file basis, library dependencies being
> brought in automatically, using pkg_add(1) for third-party apps would
> lead to include the whole package, including manpages, documentation,
> configuration files along with the binaries. Moreover, this may not be
> a desirable behaviour for an embedded system.
>
Yes, but my idea was install it on temporary directory and remove all
unnecessary files.
> My feeling is that TinyBSD has used the KISS principle so far. The code
> as well as the configuration is somewhat raw (no offence here), but it is
> thereby easy to use, debug and modify at needs. I am going to code this
> in my source tree this afternoon and I will be glad to provide you the
> patch.
>
That's right, make tinybsd simpler is really our idea :)
Send to me your patch and i'll take a look.
Thanks
Jean
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