From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 28 14:30:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA08007 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:30:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA07927 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:29:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA06558 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:28:53 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id XAA28162 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:28:18 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.2/keltia-uucp-2.9) id WAA04190; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:35:10 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199610282135.WAA04190@keltia.freenix.fr> 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.) References: <199610281823.TAA04298@ravenock.cybercity.dk> <199610282014.VAA01918@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.48.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2632 In-Reply-To: <199610282014.VAA01918@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Oct 28, 1996 21:14:18 +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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