utilities and libraries NEED to be built together with the kernel. It's a feature in the BSD world. It'd be easer to keep them in sync if they're built
hmm, i wouldn't call it a feature :-) certainly in NetBSD we've done a lot of work to remove these sorts of issues... and the trend is only going to continue in the future. cf, ps(1) and most of the *stat utilties now no longer require the same-vintage kernel. there are still a lot remaining, and things like "ipfilter" will never be do-able otherwise, given the current way ipfilter is modified :-) .mrg.
