From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 19:40:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11421 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 19:40:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aniwa.sky (pppk-01.igrin.co.nz [202.49.245.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11415; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 19:39:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by aniwa.sky (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA01411; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:38:45 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:38:42 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton X-Sender: andrew@aniwa.sky Reply-To: andrew@squiz.co.nz To: Dean Hollister cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Perl version in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Dean Hollister wrote: > Why is perl v4 in the standard FreeBSD release, current and stable > releases? Why can't it be 5.00404 by default? Many packages require perl 5 > to work, so why not make 5.00404 the default... I imagine this is to keep a minimal distribution minimal. Once you start installing packages you install perl5 if you need it. Personally I'm quite happy to see a smaller number of floppies required to do an install without CD player or cheap network connection. What's in the standard distribution that requires perl? Is it reasonable to suppose that if people want perl they'll install an up to date version from a package, and that perl4 could be removed from the standard distribution? Probably not. at about 270K The win isn't big enough to matter much unless it was part of a general move to shrink the minimal install. Andrew McNaughton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message