Re: Bloat for bloat's sake

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 10:38:45PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Sun, 2 Aug 2026 16:53:52 -0400
>     From:        Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>
>     Message-ID:  <am-uYPxCzTZoELoK%panix.com@localhost>
> 
>   | Our installed /etc/services file is 3.4MB. 
>   | which I still want to make smaller for embedded use, but... ouch!
> 
> You could use the NetBSD boot version, as mentioned by tsutsui@, if that is
> adequate for your needs, but I'd just do something like:

And we don't normally use that 3.4MB reference file, but instead the
much smaller version created from it in /var/db/services.cdb
(~330k).

Just make /etc/services optional (minor modification of /etc/rc.d/sysdb)?

Martin