Re: Perl essential ?
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:31:34PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Would it be a good long term goal to remove perl from Esssential and
> rewrite these scripts for a posix compliant shell or in c.
>
> Im dont know much about perl or these scripts, but im good with c and ok
> with sh scripts, if i did work on non-perl replacements would they be
> welcome ?
The reason for perl-base being Essential is not that other Essential
packages can use it. It's Essential so that packages can use it
in maintainer scripts (postinst, preinst, etc).
Richard Braakman
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