[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 17:07 +0100, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> 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 snmpdx (superseded by net-snmp), lpsched (superseded by cups).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?

Its not a formal list... I'd have to go looking.  One thing that I do
think we can probably clean up is the support for legacy SunOS 4.1 a.out
executables.  Its been a few decades now, and I think the need to
support executing such programs has long since passed.

	- Garrett

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> Ced