From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 11 23:37:48 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (grimreaper.grondar.za [196.7.18.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6D237B686; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 23:37:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA18267; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 08:37:20 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.za) Message-Id: <200008120637.IAA18267@grimreaper.grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Mark Murray , John Hay , imp@village.org (Warner Losh), chris@netmonger.net (Christopher Masto), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile References: <8727.966028005@localhost> In-Reply-To: <8727.966028005@localhost> ; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" "Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:06:45 MST." Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 08:37:19 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Perl is a _*big*_ departure from the general SUID binary set; I > > propose that it becomes a distribution of its own, selectable at > > install time. Heck, I'll even do patches to achieve this. > > Oh god, not THIS discussion again. Are you also going to rewrite the > scripts in the bindist which use it so that if somebody installs the > bindist but not the perldist, things still work as expected and we > don't take a tech-support hit over it? :-) Actually, Warner did just that. The last SUID perl script has been recommitted as a c program (keyinfo(1)). (my suggestion was for a suidperldist, not a perldist, but I could make a perldist if that was warranted, and we'd need to make that compulsory until a dependancy mechanism could be done). > Last time this came up, > somebody did volunteer to re-write all those scripts in C but I don't > think anything came of it. This is another story - some of those scripts are hairy :-(. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message