On the future of Perl 5 [LWN.net]

On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 4, 2008 15:03 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: On the future of Perl 5 by sbergman27
Parent article: On the future of Perl 5

Atleast for the Fedora Live CD, there has some people looking to see, if we can drop the perl dependency since it occupies considerable amount of space which could be used for more useful purposes. So you are right but it probably will take more time for that to happen.

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On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 7, 2008 18:19 UTC (Sun) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]

> there has some people looking to see, if we can drop the perl dependency
since it occupies considerable amount of space which could be used for
more useful purposes

At least in Debian, the "perl-base" package (which is an essential, Perl's
POSIX standard utility...) containing the Perl interpreter / core stuff is
only <2MB. It's all the extra modules etc in "perl" package that take
>10MB space. But that's not an essential package.