Remove BIND, Sendmail, Perl and etc from base?

[Peter da Silva]

Richard Coleman wrote:
I've always wished that the various OS'es should just pick a "standard" 
scripting language, put in the base, and then use the hell out of it.
I wish the various UNIX variants would at least resist the
temptation to use more than straight /bin/sh, which is after
all the standard scripting language, unless they REALLY need
to.