Subject: Re: mount*(8) linked as one binary ?
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@sibyte.com>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/27/2000 12:56:22
On 27 Oct 2000, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

# I'm not sure it's a problem worth solving, but it's actually similar
# to a larger problem within NetBSD that is more likely to be worth
# solving: it's pretty much impossible to disable builds of "random
# programs" in any kind of centralized way.  if you want to do that,
# you've gotta go in and hack makefiles, which is kinda losing.

One solution would be to bite the bullet and categorize everything,
note dependencies, etc. at a collective level.  (That's actually
TWO things, since noting dependencies needs to be more granular than
the aggregate collective of any given category.)

# cgd

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