From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 19 17:13:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA17578 for current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:13:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from cabri.obs-besancon.fr (cabri.obs-besancon.fr [193.52.184.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA17569 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:13:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by cabri.obs-besancon.fr (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA09006; Wed, 20 Mar 96 02:15:43 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 02:15:43 +0100 Message-Id: <9603200115.AA09006@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: alk@think.com Cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603192239.QAA18506@compound> (message from Tony Kimball on Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:39:06 -0600) Subject: Re: perl4 X-Mailer: Emacs Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> 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 _____________________________________________________________________________ Jean-Marc Zucconi Observatoire de Besancon F 25010 Besancon cedex PGP Key: finger jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr =============================================================================