Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:45:46PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: This isn't always an option... but how hard would it be to rewrite that stuff in awk or sed? For some of the scripts, it might be possible, but it's definetly well beyond my skills. It's 21073 lines of perl in total. I definetly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Cummings
Not yet, still hashing :) On Tuesday 07 June 2005 06:22 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 06:39 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: bugs would dissipate rapidly I think. It would save space (with his use flags/architecture, perl went from 12,300K to 930K) on livecd's. I have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Cummings
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 02:21 pm, Aron Griffis wrote: Only if the ebuild is called something other than perl, right? I mean, wouldn't it need to be called something like miniperl so that openssl could dep on miniperl, and perl could dep on openssl? Actually, that's debatable, as it could

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Cummings
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 03:21 am, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Now that we've established however that openssl could compile with only a perl interpreter and none of the modules, we shouldn't have any dependancies in the other direction either? Once I find a general consensus on whether we need 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 10:41 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: On Wednesday 08 June 2005 03:21 am, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Now that we've established however that openssl could compile with only a perl interpreter and none of the modules, we shouldn't have any dependancies in the other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Cummings
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 11:05 am, Chris Gianelloni wrote: That's simple. Give it the same functionality when called with any of build, bootstrap, or minimal USE flags. heh...yeah, that would do it. Thanks, Mike -- -o()o- Michael Cummings

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-07 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:39:28AM -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: I have a weak unfounded suspicion that it might help with the whole openssl-perl loop that expresses itself when some folks are building a stage1. I dug into the openssl source quickly, and found that it uses absolutely no Perl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-07 Thread Aron Griffis
Robin H. Johnson wrote:[Tue Jun 07 2005, 03:04:43PM EDT] OpenSSL mainly uses perl to generate the assembly language versions of it's commands, in an almost portable fashion. There are also a few other scripts written in perl, but again, they don't use any modules from my examination. This

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be interested?)

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 06:39 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: bugs would dissipate rapidly I think. It would save space (with his use flags/architecture, perl went from 12,300K to 930K) on livecd's. I have a weak unfounded suspicion that it might help with the whole openssl-perl loop that