> On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 12:56 , Mark Murray wrote: > >> For me, nowadays 45MB is nothing compared to medium HDD capacity, and > >> even > >> my POCKET PC will easily accomodate it... > > > > 45 MB is fine as a port - we have ports that are way bigger than that. > > And we even have bigger ports that does take longer to build than 'make > buildworld' the whole FreeBSD (which takes less than 30 minutes on > Athron XP 1400 -- the fastest box I have at my fingertip). > > > As part of the base OS? Nope. The only functionality that we _need_ > > is the basic language - effectively miniperl. > > But to sensibly strip down the distribution to just as much as needed > does take a lot of something the most precious -- intellectual power.
Nope - it is trivial. We already make miniperl. We just need to install it and not install the rest of perl. 10 mins to do the work, and on-and-off fiddling to make the world build complete. M > That I consider a waste. I don't think anyone objects that there are > several hundred, or even thousand, files under /usr/src so long as it > builds and so long as it nicely fits -- say, in a CD-ROM. FreeBSD > 4.5-stable as of now is just 364,149 kBytes UNCOMPRESSED. Why don't you > just untargz what Perl 5 porter has to offer and forget about what files > should go and stay? You can easily install only needed parts. Bloat. Its easy to "rm -rf <stuff>" where <stuff> != unix, and other simple rules. > Speaking of which, the whole build process does not use objective-C > (correct me if I am wrong). So if you insist on stripping Perl it may > as well be unfair to leave GCC unstripped (I pretty much doubt GPL > allows you to do so, however). We strip GCC. We strip most things that we install in src/contrib. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn #text/plain; name=cv.doc [Mark Murray CV Plain Text] cv.doc #application/octet-stream; name=cv.pdf [Mark Murray CV PDF] cv.pdf To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
