perl_base
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Sat Apr 7 19:33:00 GMT 2018
On 4/7/2018 2:53 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>
> The first maintenance release for Perl 5.26 is coming up. The original
> idea of splitting the perl package up into perl_base and perl (like most
> GNU/Linux distros do) was to have a more lightweight package that
> satisfies most dependencies and could eventually be made a mandatory
> part of the Cygwin distribution. Following some discussion on the main
> list about certain postinstall actions requiring perl, do we want to
> move perl_base properly into the Base category or not?
The upshot of that discussion was that perl is in the base system of the
following distros, among many others: Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Gentoo,
and OpenBSD. Moreover, no one who participated in that discussion
objected to adding perl_base to Base. So I think we should do it.
Ken
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