From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 19 14:38:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA06728 for current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:38:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.think.com (Mail1.Think.COM [131.239.33.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA06719 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:38:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from Early-Bird-1.Think.COM by mail.think.com; Tue, 19 Mar 96 17:38:47 -0500 Received: from compound (fergus-29.dialup.cfa.org) by Early-Bird.Think.COM; Tue, 19 Mar 96 17:38:43 EST Received: (from alk@localhost) by compound (8.6.12/8.6.112) id QAA18506; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:39:06 -0600 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:39:06 -0600 Message-Id: <199603192239.QAA18506@compound> From: Tony Kimball To: current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603191919.LAA23380@freefall.freebsd.org> (owner-current-digest@freefall.freebsd.org) Subject: perl4 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I don't think this is a good argument: - - you already have perl in /usr/bin AND in /usr/local/bin! So remove them both from the base distribution. p4 can be made a package at zero-maintenance cost. How much breaks, and how hard is it to fix? ./bin/makewhatis: a /usr/bin/perl script text ./bin/catman: a /usr/bin/perl script text ./bin/killall: a /usr/bin/perl script text ./bin/sgmlfmt: a /usr/bin/perl script text ./bin/which: a /usr/bin/perl script text ./sbin/adduser: a /usr/bin/perl script text ./sbin/kbdmap: a /usr/bin/perl script text ./sbin/vidfont: a /usr/bin/perl script text ./sbin/spkrtest: a /usr/bin/perl script text Not much. Eliminate it, and that reduces the installed base OS size by 4MB, meaning more installations, more market share, better differentiation from bloated commercial systems. If I write C versions of these scripts, will that suffice to break perl off into a package? //alk