Michael Stapelberg [2014-08-12 9:02 +0200]: > Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> writes: > > perl is separate from perl-base so that in tight environement, Debian > > can be installed with only perl-base. A base system installed by d-i, > > notably, is supposed to only install perl-base, not perl. It happens > > however that d-i installs rsyslog, which depends on init-system-helpers, > > which depends on perl. Is the whole perl really needed? If some > > modules are needed, they could be moved to perl-base, to save having to > > install the whole perl on all Debian base systems. > init-system-helpers uses File::Path, File::Basename, File::Find and > Text::ParseWords — none of them is in perl-base.
I'm in a similar situation with postgresql-common. It only uses perl-base, and I replaced things like the above with plain perl code (very simple for Basename, a bit more involved for ParseWords), or with calling programs (for Find). Would that be acceptable for you? I can look into this. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
