Re: Looking ahead

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:25:41 -0400
Allen Briggs <briggs%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> 
> > * most of the base system tools as installable packages
> 
> Why, specifically?  I wonder if this is similar to or different
> from the "build to image" functionality I mentioned.  The idea
> there is that you would have some kind of configuration tied to
> the source tree and you would build a complete "firmware" image
> directly.

I'm not sure what you mean by "build to image", but for me, finishing
syspkg would help a lot on the regular system as well as for embedded
systems.



                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb