> But to sensibly strip down the distribution to just as much as needed > does take a lot of something the most precious -- intellectual power. > That I consider a waste. I don't think anyone objects that there are > several hundred, or even thousand, files under /usr/src so long as it > builds and so long as it nicely fits -- say, in a CD-ROM. FreeBSD > 4.5-stable as of now is just 364,149 kBytes UNCOMPRESSED. Why don't you > just untargz what Perl 5 porter has to offer and forget about what files > should go and stay? You can easily install only needed parts.
Well, my understanding is that this is exactly what Mark is talking about-- for the needs of the FreeBSD itself (build, pksrc?) they don't need all of Perl. For that miniperl or something like Debian's perl-base where you don't start by leaving out what you don't need but instead by taking in only what one absolutely needs. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
