Re: possible additions to perl-base for debconf
Joey Hess wrote:
> We're looking at putting debconf in the base tarball so it can be used to
> configure apt and other things on fresh debian installs. But debconf depends
> on a couple of modules that are in perl, not perl-base. If the following
> modules could be put into perl-base, debconf could lose its perl dependancy
> and get into the base tarball:
>
> IPC::Open2
> IPC::Open3
> Data::Dumper (non-XS version only)
> Text::Wrap (depends on Text::Tabs)
> Fcntl
Actually, I don't need Fcntl, just eliminated use of it.
> Are you willing to consider putting these modules into perl-base? I think
> this would increase the package size by some 58k.
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