From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 21 15:23:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA24181 for current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:23:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA24165 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:23:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.12]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA06991; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:02:56 +0100 Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id WAA00335; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:53:53 +0100 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:53:53 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider Message-Id: <199603212153.WAA00335@campa.panke.de> To: Tony Kimball CC: current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Tony Kimball's message of Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:39:06 -0600 Subject: Re: perl4 Reply-to: Wolfram Schneider MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <199603192239.QAA18506@compound> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199603192239.QAA18506@compound> Tony Kimball writes: >So remove them both from the base distribution. p4 can be made a >package at zero-maintenance cost. How much breaks, and how hard is >it to fix? > >./bin/makewhatis: a /usr/bin/perl script text >./bin/catman: a /usr/bin/perl script text >./bin/killall: a /usr/bin/perl script text >./bin/sgmlfmt: a /usr/bin/perl script text >./bin/which: a /usr/bin/perl script text >./sbin/adduser: a /usr/bin/perl script text >./sbin/kbdmap: a /usr/bin/perl script text >./sbin/vidfont: a /usr/bin/perl script text >./sbin/spkrtest: a /usr/bin/perl script text > >Not much. Eliminate it, and that reduces the installed base OS size >by 4MB, meaning more installations, more market share, better >differentiation from bloated commercial systems. 4MB? Guess 100K. Wolfram