Re: perl-base
Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> writes:
> > e) move the modules from dpkg-perl to dpkg.
>
> No. The dpkg package is already too bloated. If we add dpkg-perl to it,
> then we should add dpkg-python too. And then we have to update dpkg
> everytime we fiddle with the interfaces in these relatively immature
> packages. We should try to minimize the number of updates to dpkg, since
> that makes it easier to trace back problems to a specific revision.
ok, that's reasonable. If the interfaces were mature, they could go
with dpkg. libdpkg is there.
> Personally, I'd like to see the dpkg package shrink. dselect could be
> a separate package from dpkg.
A few of the larger things in dpkg should be dpkg-dev -
/usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/*
/usr/include/dpkg/*
/usr/lib/libdpkg.a
Moving those would knock about 1/3 off its size. I'll file a bug
report.
Guy
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