> Obviously, I cannot speak for packages which are outside the book. But > for everything non-perl that is in the book, we either > require/recommend any perl modules it uses, in which case they are in > the book, or we note tham as optional, and those might have external > references.
What I have is what was on anduin back in January. In looking at the CPAN console log some more, it's still a bit confusing. But usually just letting puzzles stew in my brain for a while results in a solution of some sort. And although I rarely use a desktop, there's XFCE to install! Maybe by then I'll have a plan. > It is hard to compare python, because there is no single unified > source. Personally, I find it hard to find the source even when I > think I know the module name, and fairly recently I was looking for > something that turned out to have been defunct for a few years (there > was a different module which replaced it for that application). Yes, making it just that much harder trying to make a "basic module library". I can see now why you wait for need. > And unless you use modern forms of \TeX you will have no use for biber > which is the package responsible for many of the perl modules I might have had some use for some of the documentation, but if I don't "have to have" I generally avoid packages. > in BLFS. Most other BLFS packages using perl do not need many > modules, but anything using libwww-perl pulls in a load. Seems like that one has some utility. I'm inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt. Thanks, Ken, for your input. It has been instructive. I have an idea that may make the tree from what's in the book's files in less than exponential time. But I'll just leave that to stew for a while. I don't generally NEED a desktop environment, but it is expected, isn't it. ;-) After that I'll see what I think about perl modules. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - IMAP accessible web-mail -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
