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On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:39:07AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> 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
Why are you asking me...? I'm the Bloat King :-)
> 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.)
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