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From: Douglas Russell <puggy@bobspants.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat
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What is perl a dependancy of? I'd look, but I don't want to do such a big
download. ;-)

Puggy

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 2:18 pm, Michael Cummings wrote:
> To hit one of the questions - perl is on there because it is a DEPEND of
> some of the other packages - it isn't there explicitly, its there because
> it is a DEPEND. (caps not personal, just pointing it out as the var)
>
> and yes, despite my bias, i miss the days when i could point to the stage1
> iso and say to people "see? 15 megs. 15!!"
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:39:23AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > I believe it *is* too much.  In fact, our "basic" install CD should be
> > as basic as possible.  The instructions should be as basic as possible.
> > Why are we using links rather than lynx?  Why *is* perl on the install
> > CD?  Why do we have vim versus a smaller vim clone?
> >
> > --
> > Chris Gianelloni
> > Developer, Gentoo Linux
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