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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:53:53 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: perl4
Message-ID:  <199603212153.WAA00335@campa.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: Tony Kimball's message of Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:39:06 -0600
References:  <199603192239.QAA18506@compound>

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In article <199603192239.QAA18506@compound> Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM> writes:

>So remove them both from the base distribution.  p4 can be made a
>package at zero-maintenance cost.  How much breaks, and how hard is
>it to fix?
>
>./bin/makewhatis: a /usr/bin/perl script text
>./bin/catman: a /usr/bin/perl script text
>./bin/killall: a /usr/bin/perl script text
>./bin/sgmlfmt: a /usr/bin/perl script text
>./bin/which: a /usr/bin/perl script text
>./sbin/adduser: a /usr/bin/perl script text
>./sbin/kbdmap: a /usr/bin/perl script text
>./sbin/vidfont: a /usr/bin/perl script text
>./sbin/spkrtest: a /usr/bin/perl script text
>
>Not much.  Eliminate it, and that reduces the installed base OS size
>by 4MB, meaning more installations, more market share, better
>differentiation from bloated commercial systems.

4MB? Guess 100K.

Wolfram



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