our perl-core on p5p

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Aug 17 17:12:14 UTC 2009


On 08/17/2009 12:42 PM, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> perl-core installs perl+core, i.e. the perl interpreter plus all the
> core modules.  So I see _some_ logic behind that.

Well, I like to think that I tried to put some logic behind it
originally, but I think this is a better logic. :)

> I still think that people who will get all the core modules instead
> of "just the perl" when they yum install perl, will feel trapped.

I'm not sure of that, most probably won't notice the difference.

> A question (sorry if it already has been answered): are we the last
> one who use the name "perl" for the minimal set?  If majority the other
> GNU/* distributions use the term "perl" for perl+core modules (I know
> that Debian does, for example), then we probably should unify the
> terminology.

Yeah, I don't think anyone else uses "perl" for the minimal set.

>> > We should also clean up the autoprovides anyway, [...]
> Agreed.
> 
>> > [...] as much as looking at that pile of code makes me cry.
> I would like to rewrite it from scratch.
> 
> Moreover, I'd like to do it in gawk.  These scripts are the only
> reason why every mock build root contains perl.
> 
> Again, this is something which should not be done after the alpha
> freeze.  IIRC, with the new schedule, dist-f13 opens long before
> F-12 is released, I think it is soon after the beta freeze, i.e. at
> the end of September.

Okay, lets focus this in the F-13 release.

~spot




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