Re: Error during potato bf install
- To: randolph@tausq.org
- Cc: Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>, Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>, Matt Porter <mmporter@home.com>, Debian boot-floppies mailinglist <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>, debian-perl@lists.debian.org, adduser@packages.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Error during potato bf install
- From: Marcel Harkema <marcel@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:36:54 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:36:26PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > Well POSIX.so and POSIX.pm are provided by perl-5.005-base, adduser does
> > need it in order to be internationzalized. I've written the patch ...
>
> Is it really that hard to rewrite adduser in C? Can someone enlighten me as
> to why doing that will not be feasible?
Of course it's not hard to do. But personally I don't like to
duplicate functionality and besides it increases our workload with
yet another program we have to maintain.
> boot-floppies should have as little dependencies as possible. i don't think
> we should move anything (even small parts of perl-base) onto it....
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