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Re: adduser rewrite



>> > 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.
>
> dpkg has a pre-dependency on libstdc++ already.
>

Really?  Interesting.  Never new that.  ^,^

> FWIW I don't think we'll get rid of perl from base either [1], but
> every little step helps :)

I'm sure if enough people put time into it perl get get removed from base.
Perhaps there just isn't enough need to do so, though.  While it would be
nice, is there any situation anyone has run into were having perl in base
has been severely bad?

>
> randolph
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> Debian Developer <tausq@debian.org>
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> [1] FWIW I do a lot of perl and C++ myself, and have nothing against





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