From owner-cvs-etc Sat Jun 22 12:38:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-etc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA04565 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:38:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA04559; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from campa.panke.de (anonymous218.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.218]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA14225; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 21:27:49 +0200 Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA07200; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 21:11:37 +0200 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 21:11:37 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Message-Id: <199606221911.VAA07200@campa.panke.de> To: Paul Traina Cc: Mark Murray , Michael Smith , 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 In-Reply-To: <199606221753.KAA22908@precipice.shockwave.com> References: <199606220727.JAA13561@grumble.grondar.za> <199606221753.KAA22908@precipice.shockwave.com> Reply-to: Wolfram Schneider MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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