Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 19:24:58 +0300 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> To: Dan Kogai <dankogai@dan.co.jp> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Vadim Konovalov <vkonovalov@peterstar.ru>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users? Message-ID: <20020501192458.Y21317@alpha.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <F59D1F9E-5D1E-11D6-BB19-00039301D480@dan.co.jp>; from dankogai@dan.co.jp on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:17:40AM %2B0900 References: <200205011556.g41FucoI039924@grimreaper.grondar.org> <F59D1F9E-5D1E-11D6-BB19-00039301D480@dan.co.jp>
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> But to sensibly strip down the distribution to just as much as needed > does take a lot of something the most precious -- intellectual power. > That I consider a waste. I don't think anyone objects that there are > several hundred, or even thousand, files under /usr/src so long as it > builds and so long as it nicely fits -- say, in a CD-ROM. FreeBSD > 4.5-stable as of now is just 364,149 kBytes UNCOMPRESSED. Why don't you > just untargz what Perl 5 porter has to offer and forget about what files > should go and stay? You can easily install only needed parts. Well, my understanding is that this is exactly what Mark is talking about-- for the needs of the FreeBSD itself (build, pksrc?) they don't need all of Perl. For that miniperl or something like Debian's perl-base where you don't start by leaving out what you don't need but instead by taking in only what one absolutely needs. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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