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From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users?
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But doesn't the kernel rely on perl for building?


perl5 ../../kern/vnode_if.pl -h ../../kern/vnode_if.src

does it make sense to remove it from the base when the base depends on it?

Ken

On Wed, 1 May 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> My take on this.  We should remove perl from the base, and
> automatically install the port for most users in sysinstall, just like
> we do with XFree86.
>
> Warner
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