Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary: Install CD Bloat thread

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>]

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On 24/08/2003 at 22:09:12(+0100), Stuart Herbert used 6.6K just to say:
> > Another culprit for the increase was the inclusion of Perl 5.  No one
> > could figure out a good reason for it to be on there.
> 
> pptpclient requires it.  
> 
> There are a number of packages that pull in Perl 5 during the process of 
> creating the CD image, but pptpclient is the only package that survives 
> through to the actual CD image that genuinely needs Perl 5.  See the 
> attachment for all the gory details.
> 
> The only way to leave Perl 5 off the CD is to drop pptpclient.  I couldn't 
> find any alternative on Freshmeat, and I suspect that many people who install 
> Gentoo Linux have ISPs who use PPTP.

Well, there is always perlcc. One could make a huge, perlcc-compiled and
statically linked pptpclient for the LiveCD I guess. Or it doesn't have to be
static, keeping the necessary libs could be enough.

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