Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:59:52 -0600 From: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl4 Message-ID: <199603201659.KAA20250@compound> In-Reply-To: <988.827339761@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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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.
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