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On Jul 30, 2014, at 12:29, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 July 2014 18:12, Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@pobox.com> wrote: > On Jul 30, 2014, at 11:28, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I personally think that we include things we shouldn't and dont include things we should, and that the discussion cannot be simplified to "minimal core is better". > > That's easy for you to say, but when the criterion is "what people want", either you take the intersection of everyone's sets of crucial libraries or the union. The intersection approaches "minimal core" and the union approaches "CPAN". > > If crucial libraries means "application libraries" then I agree that CPAN is the right place. > > I personally am more concerned with[...] That's the crux, isn't it: Crucial is personal and subjective. The criteria must be objective, and the objective endgame is either minimal core, or bloated core. It can't be somewhere in between because anything $_ can't imagine ever needing is immediately "bloat", foreach @everyone. -- Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@pobox.com>Thread Previous | Thread Next