From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 22 14:57:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA12311 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA12305; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:57:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA22856; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:54:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606222154.OAA22856@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist To: phk@FreeBSD.org (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:54:28 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <4653.835470267@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jun 22, 96 12:04:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Now, lets pull the next holy cow into the open and look at it ? > > Here's why I don't complain and scream about perl in FreeBSD. > > Disk-space is cheap. > > The reason the "software-tools" concept has been as successful as it > has is that the tools were available, even if you didn't actually > need them or even wanted them to be available. Here's why I complain and scream about PERL in FreeBSD. FreeBSD, true to it's UNIX heritage, is a tools-based OS. PERL is a tool (fine so far). PERL scripts are not tools (the kicker). The problem I have with scripting will continue to be a problem until the /etc/rc* data embedding mess goes away so I can upgrade a system by overwriting everything but "/var/conf", or a similar directory, and by leaving the /home partition alone, with nothing else sacred. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.