On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 12:41, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 15:58:46 -0500, John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> > wrote: > >But it would not be nice to not have the things that would leave with it. > > Generally, it would be a good thing to have Debian base installable > without perl. That way, security-aware administrators would have the > right to choose whether they need $BELL or $WHISTLE that makes perl > appear. > I don't think removing Perl has anything to do with security, I don't believe it is any less secure than C rewrites. It's just an aesthetic thing for me, I like C :-) OTOH, if we're going to have a high-level language in base, I'd rather it be Perl than anyone else's pet language ... it's well understood, and the perl-base packages are tight enough that it's not so great a worry. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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