[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)

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 16:57 +0100, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> On 9 November 2010 16:20, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Is there other stuff which you want to rip out?

Yes!

snmpdx (superseded by net-snmp), lpsched (superseded by cups).

For a start.  There are probably others, too.

	- Garrett

> 
> Ced