Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:15:39 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.co.za> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: jhay@icomtek.co.za (John Hay), mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), chris@netmonger.net (Christopher Masto), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile Message-ID: <200008112015.e7BKFdl59331@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200008111948.NAA60882@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Aug 11, 2000 01:48:08 pm"
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> In message <200008111945.e7BJjlj58635@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> John Hay writes: > : I understand this, but the point that I was trying to make is that > : FreeBSD installations are supposed to get easier and not more difficult. > : To require that you have to get the FreeBSD source just to get a part > : of it, is wrong. Then we should rather make it a port/package so that > : someone doing a binary installation can just pkg_add it if they want it. > > Agreed. I don't think that the source requirement is that big a deal > given the size of disks today. How widely deployed is suidperl? I don't think disk size is the issue. Lots of people just do a binary installation. They don't even build a custom kernel... Those ones will probably also not miss suidperl, I guess. :-) And where and how are you going to document it? "If you want suidperl, you have to install FreeBSD including its source, then set ... in /etc/make.conf and then do a make world."? :-) I don't know how widely suidperl is used. I have some scripts that use it. > > Like I said before, I'm testing patches to make suidperl, but install > it mode 0. Marcel thinks this is a bug, so I'll see how he defends > this statement against what is sure to be some pointed questioning. :-))) John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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