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Re: LSB Spec 1.0 Criticism



On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:32:53PM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote:
> 3) Perl is Big. Using it for system init is a monstrous case of unnecessary
> bloat.

Well, we have perl-base. ie a cutdown set of perl is possible.

Probably it isn't really necessary to use perl for init scripts,
I agree. But I've seen a lot of perl-phobia on this list at times
and I just wanted to be sure that isn't the case here.


cheers,
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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