Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2012 14:14:50 Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> One approach would be to remove all perl modules that are not used by any >>> blfs packages. If this approach is acceptable, I can work through Bruce's >>> grep-list to see which modules are used. >> That is reasonable. If someone runs into a module not in BLFS, the general >> instructions should be enough to show how to get that module installed. > > The perl modules which are used by packages in blfs are: > xml::parser (used by 8 packages) > sgmlspm (opt. for building docs for 1 package) > archive::zip (req by 1 package) > > 6 modules (libwww-perl, date::manip, html::parser, html::tableextract, > crypt::ssleay and finance::quote) are ONLY used by gnucash; in which case > they > are optional and used for retrieval of stock price quotas. I wonder how many > ppl use that functionality... > Could these be removed?
If they are there already and the only change needed is to update the version number, I think they should be left in the book. > The following 12 modules are used by no packages and thus are candidates for > removal: > finance::quotehist > module::info > module::signature > net::dns > pod::coverage > test::pod > test::pod::coverage > text::diff > tk > uri > xml::simple > yaml Just comment these out and we can add them back if needed. I don't recall why these were added, but they may have to do with older packages that have been either removed or updated. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
