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Re: Sets, subsets, syspkgs, and MK*



> > I can't answer it because I don't see how things like
> > "Sets, subsets, syspkgs, and MK*" affect on creating
> > binary patches. We can simply create binary patches
> > from two sets of DESTDIR, can't we?
> > 
> > Anyway, smaller binaries are not so important in these days
> > and independent binary replacement mechanism (which can be
> > handled like pkg_add(1)) is better for ordinary users, I think.
> 
> For ordinary users yes, for serious users no.  If you have 1,000 production
> machines running NetBSD, you surely don't want to install binary updates of
> features you don't use.

Hmm, then could you please answer my first question?
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Izumi Tsutsui


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