there are no perl deps on on the gnome stack any more. I filed around 20 odd bugs to fix that up.
<3 XOXO !
The only package that currently pulls in perl if you do a "yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop Environment'" the only thing that pulls perl in is the CD burning stuff which obviously isn't required on the XO.
There's a cdparanoia-libs-10.2-4.fc11.i586 , maybe gstreamer-plugins-XYZ requires cdparanoia-libs requires perl ? There's also a libcdio "provides an interface for CD-ROM access". However ISTR wmb considering adding support for USB CD-ROM drives in firmware, maybe it's useful.
Presumably some package doesn't have docs split off and that's what is pulling in ghostview, groff, rarian.
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