On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:45:26AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>[...] upstream considered it completely unacceptable for anyone to
>ship python in such a state that users would end up with less than the
>full python suite installed on their system.  [...]

In fairness, Perl upstream had similar problems with Debian distributing
their product piece-meal.

The principal concern was the exclusion of documentation, which seems to
have been assuaged by the addition of a stub for perldoc which instructs
users to install the perl-doc package.

--bod, noting that the INSTALL doc now includes the contents of Debian's
       perl-base as an example of a minimal install...


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