F9 Alpha spinning

[Hans de Goede]

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 at 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 at 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