Re: Feaping Creature-ism in core Debian Packages
Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Well, I _do_ have perl installed, and here is the build.log from my
> attempt:
Ok, it needs perl-5.005 for it's regression test.
I'm not going to respond to the rest, because I have long ago anwsered every
complaint you have. Some by ignoring them, and some by adding things like
--verbose to debhelper. It was all discussed two years ago, and I don't see
any need to discuss it again.
You're welcome to write a tool you like better. I don't think you have much
business trying to tell other what tool to use though.
> My point about perl is that when you integrate more dependencies into the
> installation process you automatically create more points of failure.
> Allowing the infiltration of perl into installation proceedures
> unnecessarily complexifies the process with very little gain, outside
> allowing perl programmers to ply their trade. The fact that the upstream
> maintainers of perl have shown historic willingness to break interfaces in
> order to "improve" perl, suggests that such occurances will happen in the
> future, with unknown ramifications.
So have the upstream maintainers of the linux kernel. I don't see anything
here but a bunch of anti-perl sentiment.
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see shy jo
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