From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 2 2:45:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6EC37B400 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 02:45:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g429jiw2068614; Thu, 2 May 2002 10:45:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with UUCP id g429jgf2068613; Thu, 2 May 2002 10:45:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g429g4oI021192; Thu, 2 May 2002 10:42:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200205020942.g429g4oI021192@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: hm@hcs.de Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users? References: <20020502071539.36A695D0@hcswork.hcs.de> In-Reply-To: <20020502071539.36A695D0@hcswork.hcs.de> ; from hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) "Thu, 02 May 2002 09:15:39 +0200." Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 10:42:04 +0100 From: Mark Murray 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 > >From the keyboard of M. Warner Losh: > > 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. > > OK, fine and if then an option "FETCH_MAKE_AND_INSTALL_PERL_FROM_PORTS" > is added to make.conf and made working so that make buildworld/installworld > updates go transparenly without loosing perl (or any other component of the > current base system, which will for shure be removed taking the perl > removal as a precedent case) then i'm calmed down. This won't work - perl won't cross-build. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn #text/plain; name=cv.doc [Mark Murray CV Plain Text] cv.doc #application/octet-stream; name=cv.pdf [Mark Murray CV PDF] cv.pdf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message