* Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary: Install CD Bloat thread
@ 2003-08-24 23:37 99% ` Georgi Georgiev
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From: Georgi Georgiev @ 2003-08-24 23:37 UTC (permalink / raw
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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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