This one time, at band camp, Jeremiah C. Foster said: > > 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. No. > 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)? The "whole of Perl" means everything that gets installed by the upstream tarball. This has nothing to do with CPAN modules. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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