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by mhx77 2030 days ago
> @OP: Can you please explain why you keep 50 gigs of perl around? :-)

Sure. I've been the maintainer of a perl portability module (Devel::PPPort) for a long time and every release was tested against basically every possible version (and several build flag permutations) of perl that was potentially out in the wild.

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The single case in the known universe.
Very impressive, to say the least.

(Not meant sarcastically :-)