Fwd: (WTF?) ExtUtils::MakeMaker not included in recent red-hat perl releases

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 01/24/2012 06:15 PM, Dave Cross wrote:
> On 01/24/2012 04:28 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 01/24/2012 03:45 PM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
>>> So called "red-hat perl" is popular again on Perl porters. I guess if
>>> you have any proposals about Perl packaging, now it's the best time to
>>> say so.
>>> The main problem is that 'yum install perl' doesn't install whole Perl
>>> tarball.
>> It should not. It should install a minmal run-time.
>
> The question here is who gets to define what "perl" means. People on p5p
> believe quite strongly (and rightly, in my opinion) that they say what
> constitutes Perl - and therefore what should be in a package called "perl".
>
> This isn't about them saying that you shouldn't distribute a cut-down
> version of Perl. It's about what that cut-down version is called.

Well, we call the stripped down version "perl" and also have a 
"perl-devel" packages. It's the kind of "run-time"/"devel" package split 
we apply to probably all packages.

Ralf