Perl policy documentation
Hello,
In there current version of the debian perl policy document
it states in section 2.2:
In order to provide a minimal installation of Perl for use by
applications without requiring the whole of Perl to be installed,
the perl-base package contains the binary and a basic set of
modules.
Should this not read:
In order to provide a minimal installation of Perl for use by
applications without requiring all of CPAN to be installed,
the perl-base package contains the only the perl binary and a
small subset of CPAN modules.
I think the latter is clearer and more accurate. For example,
what is the "whole of Perl"? Is that the perl binary, perl binary
and all modules? Or is it the perl binary and the core modules as
defined by perl (as opposed to the core modules defined by debian)?
Regards,
Jeremiah
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