[indiana-discuss] Re: Indiana Problem Statement

[Doug Scott]

David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
>> Perl is not cheap either.... Though as some Solaris services use perl 
>> it could not be removed from the base.
>> doug at prae> du -hs /usr/perl5
>> 60M /usr/perl5
>
> But that's the *uncompressed* perl5 hierarchy which includes two
> different versions of perl.  The relevant compressed Perl 5 packages
> from SUNWCreq are SUNWperl584core and SUNWperl584usr which total to
> less than 7MB (on either i386 or sparc).
>
> dsc
Comay,
   I think we know it is *uncompressed* perl5 :)
Is there a need for 2 versions of perl 5 (or java). Can we settle on 
using the latest.

Doug