our perl-core on p5p

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:42:07 +0200
Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:06:48PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> > Right now, "perl-core" installs everything that comes with the perl
> > 5.10.0 tarball, not just the minimal "core". The current naming is
> > confusing.
> 
> perl-core installs perl+core, i.e. the perl interpreter plus all the
> core modules.  So I see _some_ logic behind that.
> 
> 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 think it is far easier to tell people, if you want the minimal
> > functional perl bits, yum install perl-minimal.
> 
> 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.

SLES-11 has a big "perl" with a "perl-base" that contains the
interpreter and a very small set of modules.

Paul.