Gert Cuykens wrote:
True, lets talk about the factory then
The machinery would be /usr/src The resources would be /usr/ports
Do you agree a wrench is not a resource ?
I think your analogies go astray because you don't fully understand the wide variety of uses Perl has. It used in many different contexts, like:
It might be a robotic arm that arguably could/should be left behind, if and only if that is its sole function. It might be the wrench at the end of that arm, which surely might be useful in another context and you should probably keep on hand. It might also serve as the lug nuts that bind the wheels to your vehicle, which are surely inadvisable to remove. Each port that requires Perl is different.
In the building/furntiture analogy, Perl might be a couch that you could remove if it was really in conflict with the room. It might be the paint brush that colors your walls and that might be useful when adding a new room to your house, so you should keep it. It might also be the hidden filler that makes your other couch so darn comfortable, which is surely inadvisable to try to remove.
Try to gain a fuller understanding of the vast and varied usefulness of Perl before rejecting it or trying to classify it as "being like" something that you are more familiar with.
re: Perl's removal from base. I read that with some concern when it was first discussed, but I see that the burden of building it from source over and over again is terribly cumbersome. If removal speeds development and testing, giving me more timely advances in FreeBSD features, at the cost of I have to "portupgrade -[args] perl" once in a while, I am A-OK with that.
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