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On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:54:17 -0500, David Golden wrote: >On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Jerome Quelin wrote: > >>we are also splitting perl in various sub-packages for various issues: >> >>- size: we provide a perl-base package stripped to the bare minimum to >> reduce installation footprint on install cd > >How "bare minimum" are you talking about? Does every byte count or >would a 30% reduction be enough? From my perspective (as someone who has been trying to squeeze commodity distros into less space than they would like), a distro-provided minimal perl rpm/$whateverformat package should just contain enough files to start the perl interpreter and use built-in functions (e.g. printf) and not much more really. As in, everything that could be "use"d and is a file could be in a separate rpm and resolved via rpm-level deps. And maybe that is what a p5p-specified minimal perl set could look like, in other words, the Standard Installation tarball would be the minimal parts plus numerous "conveniently shipped modules" (like CGI.pm).Thread Previous | Thread Next