[illumos-Developer] Heads up: perl 5.8.4 removal

[John Sonnenschein]

On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:41 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> This is a heads-up mainly for distribution maintainers
>> 
>> with the putback of:
>> 
>> 377 removal of perl 5.8.4
>> 
>> Perl 5.8.4 and it's packages ( perl-584, perl-584/extras ) are no longer being delivered. One important result of this is that the /usr/perl5/bin/perl and /usr/bin/perl is also not being delivered.
> 
> What porpose does this change have?
> 
> What problem does this change fix?
> 
> Jörg


ON is bloated and a bunch of stuff that doesn't need to be there should be ripped out and delivered by the distributions however they like.

Do you actually have anything to contribute other than shitting on other people's work ?