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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Minimal perl install (stage1/livecd makers might be |
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interested?) |
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Date: Tuesday 07 June 2005 06:39 am |
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From: Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o> |
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To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o> |
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I have me a bug, but before I finish weighing in with my own pros and cons, I |
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thought I'd ask -dev, in particular since I know the creators of things like |
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catalyst and such are on here, and the results of this particular bug |
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(feature request) might be of interest to them. |
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A brave (perhaps bored, perhaps just frustrated) user has come up with an |
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ebuild ( http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95038 ) that should (he says |
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it does, but I haven't had a chance to set up a chroot to test it in) build |
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an extremely minimal perl that's capable of some core perl functionality and |
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litte else out of the box. Now for the perl herd, this would imply that we |
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would need to come up with some more perl-core/* ebuilds to fill in any gaps |
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that the minimal perl install has. |
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Cons are the addition of a bunch of ebuilds to cover the functionality that |
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the minimal install lacks. |
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Pros, though, are pretty big, once getting past the first hurtle of pain. We |
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would be able to eliminate the conflicts between perl coming with module foo |
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and ebuild for foo, which is usually at or greater than the same version as |
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the one that came with perl (usually greater) A lot of our collision protect |
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bugs would dissipate rapidly I think. It would save space (with his use |
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flags/architecture, perl went from 12,300K to 930K) on livecd's. I have a |
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weak unfounded suspicion that it might help with the whole openssl->perl loop |
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that expresses itself when some folks are building a stage1. |
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I'm completely on the fence here, so any feedback welcome :) |
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