At 07:31 AM 03/04/02 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >On my install, even perldoc was not available.
Ya, what's that all about? Is that by design? Is the thinking that the basic perl package is just the binary and the standard modules? Regardless, the perl-base package does include modules and you should have perldoc to read the documentation. perldoc is about 16K so there's no real good argument for not installing it with perl-base. I think perl-doc should be either set as "required" or simply part of perl-base. My opinion is that apt-get install foo should, in many if not most cases, be a short-cut for download; ./configure && make install -- that is the default installation. Less confusion when reading the program's documentation. If there should be a "lite" package, then do a "perl-lite" or some such thing. (I'd also argue that to be really helpful, there really should be a debian "perl-full" or "perl-typical" that installs LWP and maybe HTML::Parser and other very commonly used modules. But that's another issue). -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
