files for configuration that are not needed to be installed?

James E Keenan jkeen at verizon.net
Fri Aug 27 01:29:40 UTC 2010


Gerd Pokorra wrote:
> I think Parrot installs Perl 5 modules and scripts that are only needed
> for the configuration.
>[snip list of files proposed for non-installation]
> I would like to set this entries to
> ...                                                         []
> so that this files will not be installed.
>
> I am not as safe as houses that the files are not really needed to be
> installed. May be any project or other software need them.
> I compiled rakudo-2010.08.1 on parrot-2.7.0 without that files and
> "mk_language_shell.pl" run without the files.
> Would it be okay to switch the entries or do somebody not agree with
> it? I will change the entries if I get no complains in the next four
> days.
>
>

I would like more time than that to evaluate the impact of this change. 
  In any event, I recommend opening a Trac ticket categorized as Type: 
RFC and Component: Install.

Thank you very much.
kid51



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