On 12/30/14 00:12, Rich Felker wrote: > 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.
I got the previous perl removal patches upstream eventually (after about 7 years of trying), I just had to reenact John Cleese's part of the Dead Parrot skit: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.3/02061.html I should submit the new perl removal patch to linux-kernel. I already checked it in to Aboriginal: http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1717 I just... have little enthusiasm left for dealing with the linux-kernel community. Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
