Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:35:10 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Base tree bloating (Was: ex/vi version 1.79 now available for anonymous ftp.) Message-ID: <199610282135.WAA04190@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199610282014.VAA01918@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Oct 28, 1996 21:14:18 %2B0100 References: <199610281823.TAA04298@ravenock.cybercity.dk> <199610282014.VAA01918@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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According to J Wunsch: > Nope, we should seek a better solution. Perl 4 is unsupported, and > suffers from some bugs. As Tom Christiansen like to say: ``Perl4 is dead dead dead'' :-) > We better might find a way to update it by Perl 5, but with still leaving > most of the bloat in an optional port. I haven't looked into it yet, but > i think of a Perl in the base system with about the same functionality as > Perl 4 has right now, and an additional port that contains all that > various module stuff etc. Except that you'll have to separate "standard" modules and "locally added" packages. I don't think that ripping standard modules from the base Perl 5 tree is viable. > j@uriah 78% du -sk /usr/local/lib/perl5 > 2687 /usr/local/lib/perl5 247 [22:07] roberto@keltia:/build/angband-280> du -sk /usr/local/lib/perl5 8703 /usr/local/lib/perl5 Granted, I have a few modules (like Tk :-)). 264 [22:25] roberto@keltia:/build/perl5.003_07> du -sk lib ext pod 1537 lib 754 ext 1055 pod + perl/x2p binaries + manpages. OK, that's a bit more than 3 MB. You'd have to deal with locally added packages (which can't go into /usr/share/perl5) and fiddle with Config.pm for site_perl. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #26: Sun Oct 27 19:39:11 MET 1996
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