The first maintenance release for Perl 5.26 is coming up. The original idea of splitting the perl package up into perl_base and perl (like most GNU/Linux distros do) was to have a more lightweight package that satisfies most dependencies and could eventually be made a mandatory part of the Cygwin distribution. Following some discussion on the main list about certain postinstall actions requiring perl, do we want to move perl_base properly into the Base category or not?
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