On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 04:04:42AM +0000, Jason Spiro wrote: > > But before I could deal with THAT today I tried to swap in the linux > > 3.18 kernel in aboriginal and build i686 and SOMEBODY ADDED PERL BACK as > > a build preprequisite. (I literally spent YEARS getting that removed > > last time, and they added it back in 3.18-rc6. Right at the END of the > > build cycle. Honestly...) > > I know you strongly dislike Perl. But the Linux kernel maintainers don't > mind it so much, and they probably don't care about Aboriginal Linux at all. > Why don't you want to add Perl to Aboriginal Linux? Perl isn't that big, > and if you delete some or all of the modules which come with it, it's even > smaller.
Um, I think Perl is about the size of all of Aboriginal combined. Doubling the size of the package for the sake of gratuitous (i.e. otherwise useless) crap needed for the kernel build system does not make sense. Rich _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
