----- "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay, so with all of that said, let me discuss what would happen if > we > were to switch the naming of perl and perl-core tomorrow: > > * Any packages which still have "Requires: perl" , rather than a more > specific "Requires: perl(foo::bar)" would suddenly have a much larger > installation footprint. (Thankfully, I think this is probably almost > never the case in current Fedora as a result of many cleanups.) > * New users who do not read the descriptions (which, unfortunately, > are > far more than those who do) and run: yum install perl, will get more > perl modules than they possibly want or need. I realize that this is > a > hotly debatable point. > * Existing users who are currently happy with the focused perl > packages > that they have installed (only those which are explicitly needed by > dependencies) will suddenly get a lot more perl subpackages which > they > are not using upon the next update/upgrade. This leads to cries of > "OMG > BLOAT!!!1!". > > I see four possible courses of action at this point: > > 1. Go back to a monolithic perl. I do not like this option, and I > would > not recommend it. > 2. Reword the descriptions to make it much clearer that the "perl" > binary package, and the dependencies it has, is not the complete > "core" > as provided in the perl tarballs, it is simply the minimal necessary > for > /usr/bin/perl to run. (We probably want to do this anyways.) > 3. Swap the perl and perl-core names, with the above results. > 4. Rename perl / perl-core to something more obvious. We could > convert > what is now "perl" to "perl-minimal", for example, but what if > someone > runs "yum install perl"? What should they get? The minimal or the > "everything in the tarball" experience? (When this split was first Thanks for your explanation. I was thinking about 3 or 4. We have time to decide because the best time for this change will be perl-5.10.1 with rebuild all perl modules. Regards, Marcela Mašláňová -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list
