Re: Remove Perl from minimal build root
Dne 31.10.2014 v 00:37 Nico Kadel-Garcia napsal(a):
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Richard Hughes
<hughsient(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 October 2014 14:02, Vít Ondruch <vondruch(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> If you have any comments, please speak up now.
> No comment, just lots of thanks!
>
> Richard
I tried this, *twice*. Once way, way back when with Red Hat 6.x (not
RHEL 6.x, Red Hat 6.x, think back to around 2001). It was not pleasant
work, there are a *lot* of hidden dependencies. And once about 6 years
ago to to shrink and secure a CentOS build, along with ripping out gcc
and build tools.
It really wasn't pretty to watch, and I don't recommend burning your
timne on this. I wound up writing a lot of plugins to work around the
dependencies, and it rapidly exceeded the expense and time of just
installing perl.
I understand, but fortunately time is changing and some things are
better now then they used to be. I can't say this will be successful,
but as I said, RPM, which was the usual excuse, is Perl independent,
with the last exception I suggest to get rid off and I believe that Perl
team can now do bootstrap and rebuild of all Perl packages, which should
help with testing prior this lands, so all these makes me optimistic.
Vít