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Re: Perl essential ?



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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