On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 03:17:24PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > Also, we have perl-base in base, or used to at least, would yaird not be > > able > > to depend on perl-base only ? > > yaird uses at lest the following perl modules which are not currently > present in perl-base but are in perl:
Thanks for comenting on this. > ./Image.pm:use File::Copy; > ./Pack.pm:use File::Temp; > > On the one hand, perl-base exists to provide the perl modules needed by > packages in the Debian base system, so if a package like debconf or so > needs a specific module, it can be moved from perl to that package. If > yaird becomes part of the base system, or close enough to be needed to > fit on Debian netinst CDs (which is pretty much the same thing), then > adding the modules it needs to perl-base should not be a problem. perl's > maintainer is very helpful about these things in my experience. > > On the other hand, the use of File::Copy is trivially replaced by a > system() call. I'd be careful replacing the File::Temp usages with > something else though. > > It also uses HTML::Template and Parse::Recdescent that are in separate > packages. From what I can see of the config files, using > Parse::Recdescent to parse them is overkill; it should be possible to > write a parser by hand pretty easily. The use of HtmlTemplate is quite > strange. I think the best would be for Erik to comment on this, CCing this to him now. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
