> I'm sure if enough people put time into it perl get get removed from base. > Perhaps there just isn't enough need to do so, though. While it would be > nice, is there any situation anyone has run into were having perl in base > has been severely bad? If you ever installed Debian from floppies, or over a slow (say modem) connection without a CDROM, you'll know exactly what the problem is :) randolph -- Debian Developer <tausq@debian.org> http://www.TauSq.org/