Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 12:19:35 +0100 (BST)
From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
To: imp@village.org ("M. Warner Losh"), freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users?
Message-ID: <200205021119.g42BJZV73037@dotar.thuvia.org>
In-Reply-To: "M. Warner Losh"'s message of May 2, 12:30am
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> From: imp@village.org ("M. Warner Losh")
> Date: Thu 2 May, 2002
> Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users?
> 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.
XFree86 doesn't stomp on /usr/local (nor does the other port semi-
automatically installed via sysinstall, linux_base).
As part of the process of packaging the base system, I support the
idea of a new type of more tightly integrated package, installed in
/usr (for the core packages) or /usr/{opt,pkg,contrib}. "ports"
would remain as they are, though (seems too late to reclaim
/usr/local if you ever want to use those...).
Cheers,
Mark (sole member of the Reclaim /usr/local Campaign).
--
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