From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 16 10:22:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA22474 for current-outgoing; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA22464 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:21:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA10307 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 19:21:55 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA15655 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 19:21:54 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id TAA04524 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 19:06:36 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603161806.TAA04524@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: To pick a Perl fight! (more) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 19:06:35 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603161432.QAA00780@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Mar 16, 96 04:32:29 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)