On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 08:59:48AM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > > Debian. ;) > > Actually, I was more thinking in terms of delivering perl not in one > single rpm, but to have one rpm for barebones perl, and rpms for each > of the individual core modules (or logical sets of core modules).
Debian has the beginnings of that. perl-base is the minimum necessary to have a useful Perl, basically a binary, the perl man page, and a handful of critical modules (AutoLoader, Carp, Exporter, File::Spec, IO, etc...). There there's perl-doc which has all the man pages and perldoc, perl-modules has all the rest of the core modules, perl-debug is a binary with debugging flags on, perl-suid is suidperl, etc... perl-modules could probably be cracked up into somewhat finer pieces if anyone so desired. The number of vigorously maintained core modules on CPAN is currently pretty low. -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One "His plagiarism was limited only by this faulty technique." -- Peter Schickele
