Re: Sets, subsets, syspkgs, and MK*

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%tombi.co.jp@localhost>]

> 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.

Masao

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