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To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: Removing Objc 
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:35:00 -0600
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
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>>>>> "John" == John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> writes:

    John> It used to be hard, but the egcs team really cleaned that
    John> up.  Now it's very easy to remove individual languages.  In
    John> fact, the objc portion of gcc is distributed as an entirely
    John> separate distfile these days.  Likewise for g++, g77, java,
    John> etc.

Two questions come to mind:

1) How much disk bloat is eliminated by removing objc from the base?

2) How much bloat is regained by installing it as a port?

#2 is my main concern. Would I have to bootstrap/install XX MB of egcs from
ports to get objc?

--lyndon


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