Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:39:06 -0600 From: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM> To: current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: perl4 Message-ID: <199603192239.QAA18506@compound> In-Reply-To: <199603191919.LAA23380@freefall.freebsd.org> (owner-current-digest@freefall.freebsd.org)
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I don't think this is a good argument: - - you already have perl in /usr/bin AND in /usr/local/bin! 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. If I write C versions of these scripts, will that suffice to break perl off into a package? //alk
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