Re: Perl essential ?
Marc,
Having interpreters to be abused by attackers is the least of the
worries. The big deal is small machines that can't take something big like
that, and floppy installs where there's not enough disk space.
Regards,
Alex.
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On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:22:25 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
> wrote:
> >Well, better watch out because it seems python will become essential
> >soon too.
>
> Will it? What package is going to depend on Python? I see serious
> bloat alert.
>
> A Debian System should have the option of being lightweight. Alone
> having perl Essential is a major turn-off, another big interpreter
> subsystem that could be abused by an attacker is bad.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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