our perl-core on p5p

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 08:36:11PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> SLES-11 has a big "perl" with a "perl-base" that contains the
> interpreter and a very small set of modules.

thank you, Paul, for this.  You saved my time.

Debian and mandrake use these package names the same way.

I peeked into a gentoo's perl*.ebuild.  Not that I could understand
it, but it is interesting that a comment contains
    "Mandr*, Debian, and ex-Connectiva perl-base list"
So this really seems to be the prevailing terminology.
This convinces me that we should rename our perl packages.

But since the main advantage I see in the rename is unifying our
terminology with other GNU/Linux distributions, I would suggest
"perl-base" as the name of the minimal sub-package.

(The term "perl-minimal" would go nicely along with our
vim-minimal and Debian's python-minimal and php-minimal.
But vim-minimal is not required by vim-enhanced.
And Debian does not use "perl-minimal"; perhaps perl-base predates
the other *-minimal packages.)

What do you think?

Stepan
  (who still have not read the original p5p thread)