F9 Alpha spinning

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:42 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:37 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said: 
> > > I'm willing to create proposal patches for any packages on the livecd 
> > > requiring perl. Can someone with a livecd image handy do "rpm -e perl" on 
> > > it and see how large the list of dep errors thrown is?
> > 
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> [snip]
> > Seems non-trivial.
> 
> Also, the live image is supposed to be a comparable experience to a
> normal install.  Removing something as integral as perl runs pretty
> counter to that goal.

Perl is pretty split out these days, so it shouldn't be that bad.

~spot