tags 442805 + wontfix thanks On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 07:44:52PM -0400, Philippe Cloutier wrote: >perl is found on almost all systems, but perl-doc is only found in 13.41% of >installs, despite it being currently recommended by perl. This speaks for >itself; systems with perl and without perl-doc are certainly not unusual.
There is a bit of history with the perl-doc package... The perl community has been at times very critical of the fact that the docs are split out *at all*. The argument is that the docs are an integral part of the perl distribution. >perl-doc was previously a suggestion, but was upgraded to a recommendation in >5.8.4-7: > * Upgrade suggestion on perl-doc to recommends now that dselect is > less pedantic about the latter. It was originally a "suggests" only because otherwise dselect would prompt every time, which was annoying. It was upgraded to "recommends" when dselect was fixed to only prompt the once. >perl-doc is a 7 MB download, so it would be important not to install it on >default installs. If you don't want it, don't install it. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
