Re: Debian, Arch or Gentoo?

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 07/04/05 

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:05:05 -0400

In the last exciting episode, John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
> Christopher Browne writes:
>> It might have actually encouraged getting something into place that
>> roughly corresponds to a BSD "core" (which represents kernel
>> + tools required to compile kernel + enough to bootstrap Ports)
>> for Linux, which would be a useful sort of understanding.
>
> Just install kernel-package on a Debian base system.

Not enough, by a long shot.

That draws in GCC and Perl and a couple other things that are enough
to build the kernel, but nothing more.

The "BSD core" needs to include all of the tools needed to *build* the
"core," meaning that it would need:
 - Bash
 - Bison/Flex
 - Whatever is needed to build LILO/Grub
 - Libc
 - bzip/gzip
 - whatever is needful to build Perl, Bash, and such, which
   includes autoconf, m4, make, awk, and some bunch of other tools
   that I'm not remembering offhand.

Most of the BSD systems have dropped Perl from the "core" in favor of
using shell and awk scripts and such as this diminishes the complexity
of things. They were finding that they needed to have a "Perl in
core" in addition to one in 'pure userspace', the former being
minimally configured so that it didn't draw the whole world into core,
and the latter being permitted to link to anything CPAN has to
offer... 

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