Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 02:15:43 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: alk@think.com Cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl4 Message-ID: <9603200115.AA09006@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <199603192239.QAA18506@compound> (message from Tony Kimball on Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:39:06 -0600)
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>>>>> Tony Kimball writes:
> 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?
If you really want reduce size, you may also consider the opposite
approach and replace all programs in /usr/bin with perl scripts
$ du -ks /usr/bin
11647 /usr/bin
:-)
Jean-Marc
> //alk
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