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Hi Alec, |
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First off - great summary! |
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On Friday 22 August 2003 1:08 am, Alec Berryman wrote: |
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> Install CD Bloat Thread Summary: |
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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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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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