On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 07:25:16PM -0400, Dan Book wrote: > Sorry I don't have quotes but I was not subscribed to the list yet. > > Looking at the dependency chain for perl-core, it brings in perl-devel > directly and as a prerequisite for modules such as perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker > and perl-ExtUtils-Miniperl.
Correct. > Assuming perl-devel is what brings in the C > development toolchain that's undesired, would this be a possibility, > however distant (direction suggested by hobbs on IRC): remove the > perl-devel dependency from these modules, and have 'perl' then be able to > install everything else - the whole set of expected core modules? It might be undesired by some yet it's necessary. Without the C development toolchain you wouldn't be able to install XS modules, at all, and there are XS modules in Core. What would be the advantage of such `perl-core` installation? It wouldn't be the Perl core people want anyway. If you want to manage a pure Perl, Core-like installation yourself, you can start with the `perl` package which is just the interpreter, more or less. P
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