From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 1 9:30:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-4.hut.fi (smtp-4.hut.fi [130.233.228.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6629937B43A for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 09:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.hut.fi (alpha.hut.fi [130.233.228.21]) by smtp-4.hut.fi (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g41GTxnJ017708; Wed, 1 May 2002 19:29:59 +0300 Received: (from jhi@localhost) by alpha.hut.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA21722; Wed, 1 May 2002 19:24:59 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 19:24:58 +0300 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi To: Dan Kogai Cc: Mark Murray , Vadim Konovalov , 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> References: <200205011556.g41FucoI039924@grimreaper.grondar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from dankogai@dan.co.jp on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:17:40AM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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