Lyle Hopkins wrote: > Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote on 12 November 2004 21:39 > > >CGI is part of the core, and honestly, I wish it wouldn't. > >It mixes several functionalities, it's quite large, there are lightweight > >replacements for parts of it, it's aging, etc. > > Could this be because part of your job is to pick CGI modules out of the > core for you distribution?
Well, I was involved in perl5-porters long before I was hired by Mandrakesoft. > >To take an example, in Mandrakelinux, it has been put out of the core, > >in its own RPM. Why ? So it can be installed independently, and, (more > >importantly), updated independently (e.g. for security advisories.) > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see why it could not be updated > independently of the core, whether it's a part of the core or not. Or are > you just talking about RPM updates? Right, I'm talking about package updates, be they RPMs, DEBs, PPMs, or whatever else the human imagination came up with.
