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From: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM>
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In-Reply-To: <988.827339761@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
Subject: Re: perl4
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   You're saying you're willing to re-write all of the offending
   utilities in C, including the test scripts for xntpd and sendmail?

Do the test scripts really need to be part of the base OS?

I would argue that since they are coupled to the perl release, they
should be part of the perl package.  You select your perl installation
just like you select des or kerberos or neither.  Selecting neither
limits your function, but the system is still intact and fully
operational as such. (I may be abusing the vernacular "package" here?)

   Isn't this something of a waste of effort just to get rid of one lousy
   package?  I mean, I appreciate the hardship you're willing to go
   through just to improve the purity of our codebase, but I wonder if
   such energies wouldn't be more profitably applied to something that's
   more seriously broken.

Yes, a reality check.  You're right.  I'd like to contribute something
to FreeBSD besides a subscription.  From the 2.2 TODO list, fsdb and
making iostat find the disks seem about right, for my interests and
skill level.  I'll go that way.