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Re: adduser rewrite



>> 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.
>>
>
>
> I guess C++ will be as good as C for this matter, will it?
>

Well, you'd then also have to have libstdc++.  It depends if that is an
acceptable dependency.

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