in reply to Perl modules actually in use

A typical perl install is "only" 20-30MB which is pretty small these days. Anyway, the core itself (/perl/bin/perl.exe) is only about 600kB so there is room for some pruning. If you have the ActiveState distribution you will have 12MB in the /perl/html/ dir that you can ditch immediately. /perl/lib/ contains the core modules (~10MB)and /site/lib/ the non core modules (~5MB) You could probably remove /perl/site/lib/ with impunity. Unfortunately many of the core modules are dependent on each other so you will need to exercise care in /perl/lib/

You can find all the sytem related ports here if you remove too much http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html

cheers

tachyon

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Re: Re: Perl modules actually in use
by netjackal (Acolyte) on May 02, 2002 at 10:35 UTC
    Actually I fibbed when I said it was ONLY running a webserver ... I am also running dns, proxy, dhcp server but all in small footprints on an old 20MB HDD ... i am essentially using this box as a server for my home network ... the machine does not even have a reliable video card! I need space for logs and my perl scripts that I will be testing on that server. Plus I am also running apache on it as I need the mod_perl environ. for the stuff i am testing.
    Your point about the core modules dependencies are very prudent and that was my worry when I was thinking of a way to cut the perl distrib size down.
    i might be able to get away with the find example given above ... and run it hard for a few days to make sure that every path is run and then check the access times.
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