The purpose of perl-base
Hi, this might be a stupid question, but right now I'm stuck with a
system with only perl-base installed, and I can't install perl nor
perl-modules-* packages.
I suppose that perl-base is meant as a minimal version of perl, but
after experiencing that I can't install neither cpanminus nor perlbrew
via their corresponding bash scripts mostly due to lack of PerlIO (and
perhaps due to badly configured include paths not finding Cwd.pm)
I might be able to work around this with a chroot, and either run my
stuff in there, or copy enough out to run a local perl.
But, that brings me to the question of how useful perl-base is if PerlIO
is not included, is that something that should be included, are all
existing scripts/modules never needing it or rolling their own IO
things? Should stuff like cpanminus/locallib/perlbrew bring include
their own versions?
Note, this is not a complaint, I'm curious in what actually gets into
perl-base and what those decisions are based on.
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