I don't know the motivation of FreeBSD people but the current Perl distribution is frightening. It is not so much a question of size but a question of comfort. Who besides the p5p afficionados know everything that is in that Perl distribution? Or should I upgrade packages that are both in the core and distributed in CPAN. Also if I were a beginner I would like to be confident I know the main Perl modules.

Many people are not perlmonks and use perl as a tool among others. It seems that Perl is becoming so large that it needs more commitment than most people are ready to give. I think this is very very sad that Perl, Python or Ruby have not displaced the Bourne-shell as a way of scripting. But that some major Unix distro choose to go back to traditional shell is a strong message. Something is very wrong.

The perl community should probably distribute a base-perl just like Mandrake does (I think debian did it first). And a base-perl doc too.

The base perl weight is 1.7Mo including .85 for libperl.o. It includes everything to import modules, be they .pm and .so, It has the pragmatic modules, the FILE::* and IO::* so one can already do serious programming.

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In reply to Re: no more perl in BSD core by stefp
in thread no more perl in BSD core by tstock

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