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*libwww-perl* bloats dependencies #101

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I am an end-user of XML-Parser for it being a dependency of another software I want to install. (On Gentoo, assuming the package is correct,) XMP-Parser ultimately pulls in 41 packages (mostly through libwww-perl), dozens of which have seemingly nothing to with parsing XML. If it is at all possible, maybe those dependencies could be reduced to the technically necessary, it would be much appreciated! Thank you!

virtual/perl-Time-Local-1.300.0-r2, virtual/perl-IO-1.520.0, virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.160.100_rc, virtual/perl-parent-0.241.0, dev-perl/Encode-Locale-1.50.0-r1, dev-perl/LWP-MediaTypes-6.40.0, virtual/perl-XSLoader-0.320.0, virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.204.1_rc, dev-perl/Mozilla-CA-20999999-r1, dev-perl/Regexp-IPv6-0.30.0-r2, dev-perl/Socket6-0.290.0, dev-perl/Clone-0.460.0, dev-perl/IO-HTML-1.4.0, dev-perl/TimeDate-2.330.0-r1, dev-perl/HTML-Tagset-3.200.0-r2, perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.206.0, virtual/perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.410.100_rc, virtual/perl-Digest-MD5-2.580.100_rc, virtual/perl-Module-Load-0.360.0-r3, dev-perl/HTTP-Date-6.60.0, virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.206.0, dev-perl/Devel-CheckLib-1.160.0, dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.940.0, dev-perl/IO-Socket-INET6-2.730.0, dev-perl/Sub-Name-0.270.0, dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-2.85.0, virtual/perl-IO-Compress-2.204.0, dev-perl/File-Listing-6.160.0, dev-perl/Try-Tiny-0.310.0, virtual/perl-libnet-3.150.0, dev-perl/URI-5.210.0, dev-perl/HTTP-Message-6.450.0, dev-perl/Net-HTTP-6.230.0, dev-perl/WWW-RobotRules-6.20.0-r2, dev-perl/Mozilla-PublicSuffix-1.0.6, dev-perl/HTML-Parser-3.810.0, dev-perl/HTTP-CookieJar-0.14.0, dev-perl/HTTP-Cookies-6.100.0, dev-perl/HTTP-Negotiate-6.10.0-r2, dev-perl/libwww-perl-6.720.0-r1, dev-perl/LWP-Protocol-https-6.110.0

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