On Monday, February 02, Juergen Menden wrote > > please drop python. might be a great language, > superiour to perl in every way one can think of. > but we all have to use perl already, it's not only > on the base disks, it's even used in lintian! > and i don't have the space to install another big > language. Please drop perl and use C. C programs don't even *need* an interpreter taking up space on the hard drive... and even perl is written in C! :-) We can't force developers to install lots of packages, but we can force them to install a few. And it's not like python-base is very big: chrish@pianocktail:[~] >dpkg -s python-base Package: python-base Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: interpreters Installed-Size: 738 (It's a pretty safe bet that lintian won't make use of fancy stuff like the python-mpz multiple-precision arithmetic library, etc.) Christian
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