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On 24/08/2003 at 22:09:12(+0100), Stuart Herbert used 6.6K just to say: |
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> > Another culprit for the increase was the inclusion of Perl 5. No one |
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> > could figure out a good reason for it to be on there. |
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> pptpclient requires it. |
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> There are a number of packages that pull in Perl 5 during the process of |
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> creating the CD image, but pptpclient is the only package that survives |
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> through to the actual CD image that genuinely needs Perl 5. See the |
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> attachment for all the gory details. |
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> The only way to leave Perl 5 off the CD is to drop pptpclient. I couldn't |
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> find any alternative on Freshmeat, and I suspect that many people who install |
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> Gentoo Linux have ISPs who use PPTP. |
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Well, there is always perlcc. One could make a huge, perlcc-compiled and |
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statically linked pptpclient for the LiveCD I guess. Or it doesn't have to be |
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static, keeping the necessary libs could be enough. |
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