On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:51:25 +0100
Ragnar Thomsen <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?

I would say yes as they are covered by the general "Standard
Installation of Perl Modules" section at the bottom of the perl modules
page.

> 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
> 

Fine by me.

Andy
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