our perl-core on p5p

[Paul Howarth]

On 17/08/09 14:21, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:53:37AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>> [...] what if someone runs "yum install perl"?
>
> I believe this is the crucial question.
>
> To satisfy the request raised on p5p, it would have to install all
> the core modules.  But that would induce many accusation of bloat.

I disagree; if someone's after a generic perl environment, the so-called 
bloat is a part of that. Somebody just wanting a bare-bones perl 
interpreter could easily do "yum install /usr/bin/perl" to avoid the 
bloat if that's what they wanted.

I guess it all boils down to "what is perl"?

Paul.