Re: adduser rewrite
How many base packages require perl? Would one app rewrite make that big a
difference?
- David Nusinow
krmt1984@ucla.edu
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:06 pm, Randolph Chung wrote:
> In reference to a message from Roland Bauerschmidt, dated Aug 28:
> > I am in the process of rewriting adduser from scratch in Python... There
>
> Please don't. adduser is in base and part of the boot-floppies bootstrap
> process. Creating more dependencies is a Bad Thing(tm).
>
> If anything, rewrite it in C and help us drop perl from the base
> tarball.
>
> randolph
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