Remove BIND, Sendmail, Perl and etc from base?

[Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai]

-On [20030725 05:02], Chris Pressey (cpressey at xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>Let me be the dissenting voice here, then: I think the number of
>languages in the 'base' should be reduced to an absolute minimum.
>To me that means: gcc, sh, and make, and ideally nothing else.

sed and awk are here to stay if you care about Unix compatibility and
the ability to use the rc scripts as well as the periodic stuff.

So that would mean: gcc, sh, make, sed, awk.

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