Sounds silly doesn't it.

However, for the purpose of building a diskless environment on a
non-NetBSD server, it would be handy if:

a) there were a dev.tgz package or
b) dev/MAKEDEV could be run on the server.

At present the use of cute features like $(($unit + 16)) etc
rules out b.  `expr ` may be sub-optimal, but for something that gets
run only once or twice in the lifetime of a system, optimization is
a non-issue.

If we take the dev.tgz approach, it should at least contain
/dev/console as the system will not boot (usefully anyway) without it.

--sjg