Syslinux upstream has the perl dep fixed.  It just needs to be patched in Fedora or a new release used.

On Aug 20, 2010 7:06 PM, "Matthias Clasen" <mclasen@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

commit 457efefa521cbcbfce79ea9889458190c48330e4
Author: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 20 19:58:44 2010 -0400

   Start size reduction

   Drop things that pull in perl. We still need to drop the perl
   dependency from syslinux for this to have the desired effect.

 fedora-livecd-desktop.ks |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks b/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks
index 3328c0d..278a214 100644
--- a/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks
+++ b/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 -java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin
 -java-1.6.0-openjdk

+# Drop things that pull in perl
+-linux-atm
+-perf
+
 # No printing
 -foomatic-db-ppds
 -foomatic
@@ -33,7 +37,7 @@
 -evolution-help
 -gnome-games-help
 -desktop-backgrounds-basic
--constantine-backgrounds-extras
+-*backgrounds-extras

 # Legacy cmdline things we don't want
 -isdn4k-utils
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