Very interesting, thanks! There's a nice summary on lwn: http://lwn.net/Articles/348084/
And there's a follow up to this discussion where Tom "spot" Callaway, Fedora perl maintainer, decides to include all perl core into "perl" package and rename basic (minimal) perl installation to "perl-base": https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-perl-devel-list/2009-August/msg00167.html I wonder why they haven't implemented this (5 years since then). Probably that's because nobody ever filed a request to do this (I didn't find anything in Redhat bugzilla with the word "perl-base") Does anyone feel like filing a bug and finally getting official Redhat answer to the question? On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Dotan Dimet <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's an old rant about the butchered state of Red Hat's "perl" package: > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149747.html > > The solution is to install The "perl-core" package for the full perl > distribution. > > > > > On 12/11/2014 03:44 PM, Tzadik Vanderhoof wrote: > > Wow... did it have Python or Ruby installed? > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> perldoc has not been part of the default installation of many Linux >> distributions for quite some time so I am not surprised by some core modules >> not making it either. >> >> Anyway, I just created a Digital Ocean ( >> https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=0d4cc75b3a74 ) droplet using Fedora 20 >> (the don't offer 21 yet) >> It does not even have Perl installed by default. >> >> I had to run >> >> yum install perl >> >> in order to have perl on the system and it indeed have not brought >> Digest::SHA with it, but it installed perldoc. >> >> yum install perl-Digest-SHA >> >> fixed it. >> >> It is a bit disturbing, but I am not surprised at all. >> >> Gabor >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Assaf Gordon <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I've encountered a strange thing (I think): >>> On a newly installed Fedora 21 (with minimal setup), with Perl 5.18.4, >>> the core module "Digest::SHA" is missing. >>> Is that normal (meaning - required an additional RPM package) ? >>> >>> I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that "Core Modules" will always be available. >>> Is that not the case anymore ? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> - Assaf >>> >>> === >>> $ perl -v >>> This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 4 (v5.18.4) built for >>> x86_64-linux-thread-multi >>> (with 23 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) >>> >>> $ uname -a >>> Linux testvm 3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 27 19:09:10 UTC 2014 >>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >>> >>> $ find /usr -name "Digest" >>> /usr/lib64/perl5/Digest >>> /usr/lib64/perl5/auto/Digest >>> >>> $ ls /usr/lib64/perl5/Digest /usr/lib64/perl5/auto/Digest >>> ( no files in these directories ) >>> === >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Perl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > > > > -- > Tzadik > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
