perl irritations

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

Matthew,

>From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs at CLEMSON.EDU>  
>Subject: Re: perl irritations  
>On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 17:21 -0400, m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
>> The problem is that this is my firewall/router. I do NOT WANT a gcc on
>> it. Am I going to need to put it on, and take it off, every time I
>> need an update from CPAN? And to remove all *-devel rpms?
>
>perl-devel has no dependency on any compiler.  It just 
<snip>
>to the package.  So install perl-devel and leave gcc off.
>
>perl-devel does include perlcc, but if that's not needed to use CPAN,
>you could just delete it (and remember to delete it again when you
>update).

Thanks! That *is* an answer I can live with.

       mark