Re: F9 Alpha spinning

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:42 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:37 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > Hans de Goede (j w r degoede hhs nl) said: 
> > > > I'm willing to create proposal patches for any packages on the livecd 
> > > > requiring perl. Can someone with a livecd image handy do "rpm -e perl" on 
> > > > it and see how large the list of dep errors thrown is?
> > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > [snip]
> > > Seems non-trivial.
> > Also, the live image is supposed to be a comparable experience to a
> > normal install.  Removing something as integral as perl runs pretty
> > counter to that goal.
>
> Perl is pretty split out these days, so it shouldn't be that bad.

Erm it is still 37 Mb (installed size):
[hans localhost gt]$ rpm -qi perl
perl-5.8.8-31.fc9.x86_64
Name        : perl                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 5.8.8                             Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 31.fc9                        Build Date: Mon 12 Nov 2007 
09:02:06 PM CET
Install Date: Tue 22 Jan 2008 04:12:49 PM CET      Build Host: 
xenbuilder1.fedora.redhat.com
Group       : Development/Languages         Source RPM: perl-5.8.8-31.fc9.src.rpm
Size        : 37202511                         License: (GPL+ or Artistic) and 
(GPLv2+ or Artistic)


Regards,

Hans