Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:

> On 7 Apr 1999, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> 
> > ...you should be able to say "make" once
> > and have it produce a complete set of binaries without installing
> > anything....
> 
> Right. In fact, it should produce all of the install sets, with
> correct permissions and owners on everything in those tarfiles.
> There's no need to have root to produce that.
> 
> The install tools may be more difficult, though....

Oh, i don't think even 'generate the tar files' would be
_particularly_ easy.  (I think i know how i'd try to solve it, but
that doesn't mean it's easy.)

If we're dreaming about a perfect world, however, we should have vivid
dreams, and i think that doing the install tools are part of them.
8-)



cgd
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Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion.