>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). :-/
That's not good. Ok, so it's a adduser bug? .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
