reopen 504042 reassign 504042 perl forcemerge 442805 504042 On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:52:52AM +0200, Juha Heinanen wrote: > Niko Tyni writes: > > > The perl package Recommends: perl-doc by design, as the documentation > > is intended to be installed by default. See #442805 for the > > background. > > i strongly disagree on this recommendation. i have never written a > single line of perl code and have not installed (at least on purpose) > any kind of perl development environment. perl got installed on my > lenny against my will because of some application that USES perl. the > person who wrote that application might want to also install perl-doc, > not me who has nothing directly to do with perl.
As discussed in #442805, the fact that the documentation is split out at all is already a compromise between the wishes of the perl development community and the disk space usage. I'm merging the bugs, but please note that #442805 is tagged as 'wontfix' and I'm not willing to change that. -- Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
