On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 02:37:10PM -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>
> > I STRONGLY suggest that this discussion should get it's own mailing list,
> > though, this is off topic for both perl5-porters and freebsd-current.
>
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:00:45PM -0500, Fisher Mark wrote:
> > One possible solution might be as follow;
> >
> > rename /usr/src/contrib/perl5 to /usr/src/contrib/miniperl5
> >
> > and just add enough file to build miniperl.
>
> I've read all the messages in this thread, but I'm still unclear
> But to sensibly strip down the distribution to just as much as needed
> does take a lot of something the most precious -- intellectual power.
> 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
> bui
Debian's perl-base is a little bit more than miniperl but it still is
only 1.2MB (ix86).
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Thanks.
> > Firstly, both the outputs of perl -v and perl -V should be amended.
> > For example:
> >
> > $ perl -v
> >
> > This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-freebsd
>
> ... etc. I could do this.
Sounds okay.
> > Secondly, as the above message indicates, there
*Sigh*
Dan, I'm not entirely happy that you chose to take this discussion so
public, with such a wide CC list. My experience is that these matters
are much better solved in smaller groups, where the signal/noise ratio
doesn't go straight to /dev/null.
[FWIW, I'm the release manager of the Perl
(I promise that this is my last message about this matter to this large a
recipient list. Who is the maintainer of the Perl package in FreeBSD?
Anton Berezin, I think? [EMAIL PROTECTED] CCed.)
Though I disagree with the tone of Dan Kogai, I must agree on the
technical grounds that leaving away s
