Would anyone be opposed to replaing gawk with mawk?  mawk is smaller,
faster, and cleaner.  It has fewer features, but most of the "features"
it lacks are in perl anyway.  :)

$ ls -l lang/*awk*
-rw-rw-rw-  1 seebs      520032 Jun 23  1995 lang/gawk-2.15.6.tgz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 seebs      821008 Jan 12 13:40 lang/gawk-3.0.0-doc.tgz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 seebs      881969 Jan 12 13:42 lang/gawk-3.0.0.tgz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 seebs      193169 Feb  9 14:33 lang/mawk1.2.2.tgz


I think this would help NetBSD achieve the goal of being small, fast,
and desireable.

-s
(It's available under GPL, and the author might be willing to release
with less restrictive copyrights if we ask nicely.)