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In article <20020501192458.Y21317@alpha.hut.fi>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> wrote: >Well, my understanding is that this is exactly what Mark is talking >about-- for the needs of the FreeBSD itself (build, pksrc?) they don't >need all of Perl. For that miniperl or something like Debian's >perl-base where you don't start by leaving out what you don't need but >instead by taking in only what one absolutely needs. But what is 'absolutely need'ed? We should maintain a document in the distribution that lists (or tries to, anyway) what under lib/ and ext/ is actually an implicit or explicit part of the Perl language. I'm thinking of all the pragmas as well as things like Errno that are implicitly loaded. PerlIO/*. AnyDBM_File and at least SDBM_File. Config. What else? (Note that I'm thinking of Debian's perl-base now, and other OS's that go that route, not FreeBSD's build needs.)