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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