Re: After potato, Yet Another Perl Renaming
Moin Michael Alan Dorman,
> Michael Koehne <kraehe@copyleft.de> writes:
> > [long comment deleted]
>
> Michael, does my memory fail me, or don't you actually run Debian
> packages on top of a heavily modified...Slackware, I think?
nope, I'm running a dayly potato (durruti.copyleft.de) in the network and
a system that did'nt seen any binaries since MCC Linux-1.2.13 (bakunin)
behind a firewall. So I can compare a hand configured system with an actual
Debian.
Ok it may be hard to compare a system where everything I need (egcs, X11,
perl, apache, kaffe, ...) went through a compiler, configured by a single
mind, with a collaborative effort like debian.
> And Debian's perl isn't _useless_ for a large majority of the people
Well most people do not yet know about uft8, fields, locale and other
pragmas in the actual perl version. I think most people can live with
the preselected known to work modules. But for people who are developing
perl the Debian knotting of perl is to fixed.
e.g. fourier is running a non standard debian, with the default perl
in /opt/perl-005_63. This version is replaced anytime a new perl
comes out, using autobundle to reinstall the modules, and some bad
tricks to bring dselect back to work. So for fourier, a nonstandard
own-perl.deb raising conflicts with the installed perl 5.005_03, is
one of the most important packages.
Bye Michael
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