On properly packaging perl

On properly packaging perl

Posted Aug 24, 2009 14:38 UTC (Mon) by djpig (subscriber, #18768)
In reply to: On properly packaging perl by zsouthboy
Parent article: On properly packaging perl

I'm not familiar with perl - can someone explain why they would bother stripping modules out of the standard distribution of perl?

Here on my Debian lenny system perl + perl-modules + perl-base currently use about 36MB, of which perl-base uses 4.6 MB. And perl-base gives you a fully functional perl interpreter... Sure, on a modern server or desktop 36MB is not a lot, but Debian tries to support as many use cases as possible, and so it makes sense to define a basic set of perl modules that are always available, so people can use them in e.g. package scripts without needing to depend on the full Perl. (The split in perl and perl-modules I can't explain, but they depend on each other so you can't install one without the other anyway)

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