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Subject: Re: why is tcl in base distribution
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * (1) Why is tcl in the base distribution if it is not used?

Beats me.  You can safely remove everything that matches
"/usr/*/*tcl*" and "/usr/share/mann/*/*" though.  Use NOTCL for your
next make world and you will never see tcl in the base system again.

 * (2) Why is the ports-current collection ignoring the version of
 *     tcl installed with the base distribution?

Because the damn thing is so incompatible with itself, and have a lot
of ports depend on each of the versions.

If you want a longer version, I can forward you my 1.6MB archive from
the most recent round of flames.

Satoshi