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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 1996 21:11:37 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), phk@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist 
Message-ID:  <199606221911.VAA07200@campa.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <199606221753.KAA22908@precipice.shockwave.com>
References:  <199606220727.JAA13561@grumble.grondar.za> <199606221753.KAA22908@precipice.shockwave.com>

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Paul Traina writes:
>Let me try an alternate idea...
>
>How about we go through and find all the src perl scripts, figure out
>how central to using the system they are, and move them into ports on an
>as needed basis?

central: makewhatis, catman, adduser, sgmlfmt
not central or easy to rewrite: which, killall, kbdmap/vidfont


>If there's nothing depending upon perl, then we can just keep the perl5
>port.

Many commercial Unix vendors shipped perl with their OS. See the Perl
FAQ. 

Wolfram



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