From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 1 10: 2:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu (maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu [139.147.232.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 529E737B41B for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 10:02:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (doughera@localhost) by maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g41H31114901; Wed, 1 May 2002 13:03:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu: doughera owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 13:03:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Dougherty X-Sender: doughera@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu To: Jarkko Hietaniemi Cc: Dan Kogai , Mark Murray , Vadim Konovalov , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users? In-Reply-To: <20020501192458.Y21317@alpha.hut.fi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > Well, my understanding is that this is exactly what Mark is talking > about-- for the needs of the FreeBSD itself (build, pksrc?) they don't > need all of Perl. For that miniperl or something like Debian's > perl-base where you don't start by leaving out what you don't need but > instead by taking in only what one absolutely needs. [I have removed perl5-porters from the CC list since I don't think that's necessarily the best forum to give unbiased advice about balancing different needs in setting up the base FreeBSD system :-). Also, it was seeming to generate more heat than light.] This is an issue for many distributions. Solaris too is considering doing something like that. It's very sane and sensible to consider. Presumably, the resulting stripped package will be named or identified in such a way that it is clear that it's not the standard package, and it will be easy for users to install the standard package once they have everything else set up. If so, I don't see any problems. A former perl maintainer, Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message