> > We could do the same for many of the statically linked executables.  We'd
> > save a few K here and there, but I don't think it is worth the hassle. 
> > 
> > Various different utilities pulling in vfprintf.c from the C library seems
> > to be a maintenance headache waiting to happen. 
>
> I agree completely.  One could go on forever doing this, and have
> little more than a lot of #ifdefs and maybe 300k of disk space.

A way to save a LOT of disk space is NOT to have -DYP in libc/Makefile.
I was running really low of space in my 8MB / (to the point where
keeping one backup kernel put the available space to 105% - and /root &
/home are different partitions.)  Removing YP support reduced the size
of the stuff in /bin and /sbin by a lot.

Another space saving idea is merging a lot of the mount_* commands (select
on argv[0]); at 36K each you could save a couple of hundred K. Then again,
the maintenance overheads may not be worth it.

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