Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 07:49:50 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM> Cc: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl4 Message-ID: <559.827336990@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:34:00 CST." <199603201434.IAA19341@compound>
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> I absolutely agree that we need perl (or more accurately that "FreeBSD > needs perl"). I claim that it does not belong in the base OS, because > it is not tightly coupled, and because most perl users will use the > most recent version, and *not* the version shipped, so it is a legacy, > baggage. You apparently miss the point that perl is *used* by the base system and making things dependent on a package, something for which there's not even a support framework (e.g. you *can't* depend on a port or package from the base system), simply would not work. Here's a list of the utilities/libs which currently rely on perl being present to either build at all or not fall over at run time: /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs /usr/src/secure/lib/libdes /usr/src/sys/pci/locate.pl /usr/src/usr.bin/killall /usr/src/usr.bin/sgmlfmt /usr/src/usr.bin/sgmls /usr/src/usr.bin/which /usr/src/usr.sbin/kbdmap /usr/src/usr.sbin/spkrtest /usr/src/usr.sbin/tzsetup /usr/src/usr.sbin/xntpd > perl by hand in order to eliminate an abhorrent redundancy. Would you > require that XF86 be bundled as well? Mi genoito! Of course not, it's not required for anything. Perl is. Case dismissed. Jordan
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