8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of /

[Barney Wolff]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:43:49PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> > To be a little more precise: it's not the >kernel< that is so big.
> > It's all the (mostly not needed) modules and symbol files that fill
> > up /
> 
> Maybe they could be put somewhere else..

I have a stupid question:  Why are modules built and installed for
things that are already included in the kernel?  That would seem
(I haven't looked) to be a simple change that would both speed up
builds and shrink /boot/kernel.

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