On 2016-06-29, Jeff Fearn <jfe...@redhat.com> wrote: > I would like the perl team to consider taking this opportunity to remove > non-standard behavior instead of adding more. The whole perl/perl-devel > split was to make the install smaller, mostly for build root reasons. > Since that is no longer a consideration can we make it so that requiring > perl gets you a proper perl core installed? > > That should stop most breakage as anyone using none core stuff should > have had it specifically required anyway. > What applies to any Fedora package, applies to Perl packages too.
For example we have about 2800 Perl packages, but only 493 are architecture specific that must depend on perl-devel and GCC. (I know the number because two months ago I accidentally removed perl-devel.) So no, I do not consider making the core modules somewhat special. Perl would have fallen into the same mud where Python or TeX Live is now. -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
