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On properly packaging perl

On properly packaging perl

Posted Aug 28, 2009 19:39 UTC (Fri) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: On properly packaging perl by zsouthboy
Parent article: On properly packaging perl

> I don't know CPAN, etc., but this sounds like the equivalent of leaving
> out a standard part of the language, right? Like packaging python
> (which I am familiar with) without, say, the Math library?

Python's actually similarly split in Debian based distros.
In Ubuntu python-minimal is essential[1]:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/python-minimal
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/python

[1] like perl-base is on all Debian derivatives. I just wonder why one is
*-base and another *-minimal...


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