Hello,
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 08:36:11PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> SLES-11 has a big "perl" with a "perl-base" that contains the
> interpreter and a very small set of modules.
thank you, Paul, for this. You saved my time.
Debian and mandrake use these package names the same way.
I peeked into a gentoo's perl*.ebuild. Not that I could understand
it, but it is interesting that a comment contains
"Mandr*, Debian, and ex-Connectiva perl-base list"
So this really seems to be the prevailing terminology.
This convinces me that we should rename our perl packages.
But since the main advantage I see in the rename is unifying our
terminology with other GNU/Linux distributions, I would suggest
"perl-base" as the name of the minimal sub-package.
(The term "perl-minimal" would go nicely along with our
vim-minimal and Debian's python-minimal and php-minimal.
But vim-minimal is not required by vim-enhanced.
And Debian does not use "perl-minimal"; perhaps perl-base predates
the other *-minimal packages.)
What do you think?
Stepan
(who still have not read the original p5p thread)
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