[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 17:03, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> 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 snmpdx (superseded by net-snmp), lpsched (superseded by cups).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.
What are the others on your list?

Ced
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