screen, lynx, bash and vim on this side.
But vim is rather large and the other ones are compiled pretty fast.

-Zafer.

2006/8/31, Martijn van Buul <martijnb@atlas.ipv6.stack.nl>:
> It occurred to me that Chuck Swiger wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.general:
> > I would dislike having perl integrated into the base; it's huge, it's
> > comparitively fragile, and chasing after Perl modules tends to require you to
> > update the installed perl fairly often.  Too much churn.
>
> FreeBSD removed perl from base for these reasons.
>
> > There's nothing wrong with lynx, but curl, wget, fetch, are all alternatives
> > which (some of them) are lighter in weight.
>
> There's nothing wrong with a *lot* of packages, but that doesn't mean I think
> they should be added to base just like that. The point is that being *useful*
> and not too big/complex aren't really the most important reasons why they
> should be added to base. Why lynx, in favour of links, elinks or w3m?
>
> When I install a NetBSD system, the very first packages I install are zsh
> and screen - but that alone hardly suffices as an argument..
>
>