Re: cdebconf replacing debconf (was: Debconf doesn't scale well -- suggestion)
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:45:06PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> Marc Haber:
> > Wasn't debconf recently orphaned?
>
> Well, yes. I don't know much about this, I only read in Joey's blog
> that the plan was to transition to cdebconf. I guess someone else will
> have to handle the transition if it's going to happen.
>
> > Will cdebconf still have that perl dependency, or will it be possible
> > to have Debian without perl once cdebconf has been established?
>
> The cdebconf package does not depend on Perl currently. I don't know
> if there any base packages using Perl in their maintainer scripts or
> otherwise though.
For instance adduser and debianutils... There are others, though.
Regards: David Weinehall
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