On 2016-06-29, Jeff Fearn <jfearn(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I would like the perl team to consider taking this opportunity to
remove
non-standard behavior instead of adding more. The whole perl/perl-devel
split was to make the install smaller, mostly for build root reasons.
Since that is no longer a consideration can we make it so that requiring
perl gets you a proper perl core installed?
That should stop most breakage as anyone using none core stuff should
have had it specifically required anyway.
What applies to any Fedora package, applies to Perl packages too.
For example we have about 2800 Perl packages, but only 493 are
architecture specific that must depend on perl-devel and GCC. (I know
the number because two months ago I accidentally removed perl-devel.)
So no, I do not consider making the core modules somewhat special. Perl
would have fallen into the same mud where Python or TeX Live is now.
-- Petr