Re: Looking ahead

["matthew sporleder" <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 6/5/07, Steven M. Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:
> 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.

I agree that syspkg's (and their integration into build.sh/crunchgen)
would make things very friendly for making a customized, embedded
system.