Trimming the Perl Library

flipxor has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Trimming the Perl Library by TStanley (Canon) on Oct 19, 2001 at 06:47 UTC
I am assuming you are talking about what modules are included with the standard distribution of Perl, a list of which can be found in perlmodlib. TStanley -------- There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out -- Douglas Adams/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	[reply]
Re: Trimming the Perl Library by Fletch (Bishop) on Oct 19, 2001 at 07:03 UTC
You can always: Remove everything Try and run your program(s) See what it complains about, and add that Repeat steps 2 and 3 as necessary :) You also probably can immediately cut out any .h (C header) header files if you won't be compiling new modules on the system in question.	[reply]
Re: Re: Trimming the Perl Library by flipxor (Initiate) on Oct 19, 2001 at 21:56 UTC
There seems to be a lot of redundancies in the perl package as well as a LOT of .sos!!! It seems like I'll have to go with the weed out approach. I do have another question. On my distribution, I have a /5.6.0 directory and a /site_perl directory. They have many similar files and there s no readme saying the significance of either. thanks	[reply]
Re: Trimming the Perl Library by chromatic (Archbishop) on Oct 19, 2001 at 22:29 UTC
Alan Burlinson from Sun did some work on this back in August. There's a nice description and an entry point to the P5P threads in this summary, second to last section. Update: Fixed the link, per Kanji's suggestion.	[reply]