RE: Feaping Creature-ism in core Debian Packages

[Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@xpsystems.com>]

> Another issue that needs to be addressed here is that Perl 
> has become a VERY standard part of ANY UNIX type OS.  Because 
> of that, Perl SHOULD become a part of base in my opinion
> (if it isn't already).  

As a non-developer you probably aren't aware of this, but Perl-Base *is*
a core, base part of the Debian distribution.

> (if it isn't already).  What isn't needed is all the 2000
> Perl modules that are available.  Unfortunately, this 

Perl modules are regularly provided as separate packages.

-B