Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 19:06:35 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: To pick a Perl fight! (more) Message-ID: <199603161806.TAA04524@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603161432.QAA00780@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Mar 16, 96 04:32:29 pm
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As Mark Murray wrote: > So - there is about 1.2MB in bin/, 3.7MB in lib/ and 0.5MB in man/. > > It is pretty obvious that lib/ can be slashed down by quite a bit, > in fact I believe lib/ can be reduced to almost nothing (about Sounds good. > 500k), but that will involve pushing man up to maybe 600-700k. Hmm, am i the only one who finds the new manpage terrible? The old one wasn't that handy either (~ 6 Klines), but at least usable as a quick reference. Now, perhaps we would best provide only a stub man page for Perl5, and put the full reference in HTML under /usr/share/doc. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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