From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 02:47:14 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Discussion about minimal installations. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c8214fdf1bb1e3ce42aa115b7beb887b55c9d0c7;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Discussion about minimal installations. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15649 --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 52a13e8..946fb68 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -2279,6 +2279,13 @@ The following section is meant for people worrying about squeezing the Perl installation into minimal systems (for example when installing operating systems, or in really small filesystems). +Leaving out as many extensions as possible is an obvious way: +especially the Encode with its big conversion tables consumes a lot of +space. On the other hand, you cannot throw away everything, espcially +the Fcntl module is pretty essential. If you need to do network +programming, you'll appreciate the Socket module, and so forth: it all +depends on what do you need to do. + In the following we offer two different slimmed down installation recipes. They are informative, not normative: the choice of files depends on what you need.