Colin Watson wrote:
You haven't challenged it successfully, then; to my knowledge, my statement is correct for the current base system, which is what it was referring to. I don't necessarily oppose tiny languages such as Lua, but perhaps somebody should write the tools in question in them first, otherwise this is pure vapourware. (Or, then again, perhaps they shouldn't; I'm not a fan of rewriting things that already work.)
All those points are well taken. I was trying to pull a fast one: surely no one would notice a few files added to base which total 1/3rd the size of bash itself. But I've been caught.
As for the evils of rewriting, I tend to agree. However, in this case, the maintainer of adduser said, "... I don't like the way adduser is currently written (and also perl) a lot, and was planning to do a
complete overhaul," which prompted me to be so bold. -- http:// if le.o /