Re: adduser rewrite
On 28 Aug 2001 17:57:29 -0700, David Nusinow wrote:
> How many base packages require perl? Would one app rewrite make that big a
> difference?
>
Yes, it would. If an one app required python, and all the other require
perl, then you need both perl and python. As it stands now you only
need perl.
Either they all need to be switched to python, nothing should be
switched to python, or select apps should be switched and left and
alternatives to the perl version.
> - David Nusinow
> krmt1984@ucla.edu
>
> On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:06 pm, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > In reference to a message from Roland Bauerschmidt, dated Aug 28:
> > > I am in the process of rewriting adduser from scratch in Python... There
> >
> > Please don't. adduser is in base and part of the boot-floppies bootstrap
> > process. Creating more dependencies is a Bad Thing(tm).
> >
> > If anything, rewrite it in C and help us drop perl from the base
> > tarball.
> >
> > randolph
>
>
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