On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:01:38 -0500
Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 10:47 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> > Ken Smith wrote:
> >
> > > I think that's what Ruslan meant by it having "traditionally been
> > > standalone". By tradition someone who just extracted the sys stuff
> > > wasn't expecting to do 'make buildkernel', they expected to do the
> > > 'config, etc'. For example someone who wanted to build custom kernels
> > > but had no intention of updating the machine using the source tree, and
> > > they knew how to build the kernels manually.
> >
> > True, but that's not even close to being the majority of FreeBSD
> > users. Given that we promote 'make buildkernel' as the "proper" way of
> > making a kernel, IMO we need to do what is necessary to make it easy
> > for users to do that.
> >
>
> True. I guess this is sort of where I was headed. IMHO we should
> either leave it as-is for the traditionalists or we should bite the
> bullet and stop providing a separate kernel source tree. As John
> pointed out in the message after this one life has moved on and
> now /usr/src is teeny compared to the size of disks. Is it worth the
> hassle/confusion to provide just kernel source any more?
I've been thinking of this, perhaps drastic idea: Don't split the
sources up anymore. I'm not sure there is a need to have just
this part or that part. Just bundle it all together and ask the
user if they want the sources.
Perhaps this email is useless without a patch, which I could
work on, but not this moment.
--
Tom Rhodes
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