[illumos-Developer] ON is bloated and a bunch of stuff that doesn't need to be there should be ripped out (was Re: Heads up: perl 5.8.4 removal)

[Cedric Blancher]

On 9 November 2010 16:20, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:41 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
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>> John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> This is a heads-up mainly for distribution maintainers
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>>> with the putback of:
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>>> 377 removal of perl 5.8.4
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>>> 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.
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>> What porpose does this change have?
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>> What problem does this change fix?
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>> Jörg
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> 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.

Is there other stuff which you want to rip out?

Ced
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