Re: [smartos-discuss] diet too much = suicide ?

2018-03-17 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On 17 March 2018 at 17:23, Dale Ghent wrote: > /usr/perl5 is intended only for the operation of illumos components which > require perl. The intention is that, over time, these perl (and probably > Java, too) components will be rewritten in C or deprecated, as appropriate.

Re: [smartos-discuss] diet too much = suicide ?

2018-03-17 Thread Dale Ghent
This is an intended change. /usr/perl5 is intended only for the operation of illumos components which require perl. The intention is that, over time, these perl (and probably Java, too) components will be rewritten in C or deprecated, as appropriate. If you require a general-purpose perl

[smartos-discuss] diet too much = suicide ?

2018-03-17 Thread Youzhong Yang
Last few days I started evaluating the most recent build which has KPTI/PCID fix. Thanks to the excellent work done by Joyent. So far I've seen no issue, except the expected performance degradation. But there's one thing that caught my eye. A dozen of our perl scripts which depend on /usr/perl5