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Postings from May 2002
> But to sensibly strip down the distribution to just as much as needed
> does take a lot of something the most precious -- intellectual power.
> That I consider a waste. I don't think anyone objects that there are
> several hundred, or even thousand, files under /usr/src so long as it
> builds and so long as it nicely fits -- say, in a CD-ROM. FreeBSD
> 4.5-stable as of now is just 364,149 kBytes UNCOMPRESSED. Why don't you
> just untargz what Perl 5 porter has to offer and forget about what files
> should go and stay? You can easily install only needed parts.
Well, my understanding is that this is exactly what Mark is talking
about-- for the needs of the FreeBSD itself (build, pksrc?) they don't
need all of Perl. For that miniperl or something like Debian's
perl-base where you don't start by leaving out what you don't need but
instead by taking in only what one absolutely needs.
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