On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 06:12:41AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Adam" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam> Um, no, this is unacceptable. If perl as well as perl-base > Adam> is required in the base section, something is critically > Adam> wrong and needs to be fixed. I.e., why bother having a > Adam> perl-base package in that case. > > The real question is "why did someone need the POSIX module"? What > couldn't that achieve using the functionality of perl5-base? > > Note That I have no background on whatever the original prolems was; > I'm responding to Adam's forwarding to debian-perl.
I'm the person who originally reported the problem while working on boot-floppies/install issues. In adduser-3.11, the adduser script seems to use the POSIX module to get at the setlocale call. My knowledge on perl is limited, though... The base2_2.tgz grows by 1.7MB if we need the full perl and the uncompressed base system grows by >5MB (at least in powerpc binary sizes). :-/ -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.
