On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:42:07 +0200 Stepan Kasal <skasal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:06:48PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > > Right now, "perl-core" installs everything that comes with the perl > > 5.10.0 tarball, not just the minimal "core". The current naming is > > confusing. > > perl-core installs perl+core, i.e. the perl interpreter plus all the > core modules. So I see _some_ logic behind that. > > I still think that people who will get all the core modules instead > of "just the perl" when they yum install perl, will feel trapped. > > > I think it is far easier to tell people, if you want the minimal > > functional perl bits, yum install perl-minimal. > > A question (sorry if it already has been answered): are we the last > one who use the name "perl" for the minimal set? If majority the > other GNU/* distributions use the term "perl" for perl+core modules > (I know that Debian does, for example), then we probably should unify > the terminology. SLES-11 has a big "perl" with a "perl-base" that contains the interpreter and a very small set of modules. Paul. -- 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
