Re: PKGSRC will be officially supported as of the next release

[Andreas Hauser <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

propolice wrote @ Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:25:24 +0000:
> > I'd like to support Andreas here, on general assumption that 50 megs of> supporting packages is nothing if the tool (language) itself is appropriate> for the job and if the tools has a fairly wide support. Recognized, supported> and stable is what lisp seems like to me.
> I thought Dragonfly was diverging from a bloated base. perl was removed from the base system, but adding a 50 meg dep is nothing?

Oh can we please drop the absurd discussion about 50 MB ?
The scheme or lua suggested is in another dimension.
186K  lua-5.0.2.tar.gz
3,4M  chicken-2.0.tar.gz

And even the commom lisp mentioned which i called bloat is not near.
9,4M  clisp-2.35.tar.gz


Andy