In message <199904301734.DAA13739@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>, Simon Bu
rge writes:
>At a guess, it probably started out as the moral equivalent of a
>"make install" for /etc, and it just grew and grew...

>It probably makes sense for /usr/src/Makefile's "make snapshot" to:

>	make build			# build 'most everything
>	cd etc && make distribution	# install /etc and /var bits
>	cd distrib && make snapshot	# piece it all together

>Are you volunteering?  :-)

Uhm.

Maybe, actually.  I'm not very familiar with our make system, but I think I
know nearly enough to do it.

I would be a lot more optimistic if I weren't trying to do this all on my
laptop.  ;)

-s