Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

[egallego@babel.ls.fi.upm.es (Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias)]

Bill Allombert <ballombe@master.debian.org> writes:

> Interestingly the size is highly dependent on the architecture:
>
> ballombe@zeta3:~$ ls -l postrm-*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 ballombe ballombe 6960782 Jan 30 14:10 postrm-amd64
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 ballombe ballombe  266065 Jan 30 14:09 postrm-i386
> ballombe@zeta3:~$ strip postrm*
> ballombe@zeta3:~$ ls -l postrm-*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 ballombe ballombe 4702544 Jan 30 14:10 postrm-amd64
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 ballombe ballombe  156720 Jan 30 14:10 postrm-i386

Ups, that seems wrong :) I thought that AMD64 maybe wasn't a
registered port in Sarge GHC, but it is.

Anyways, using an hypothetical shared runtime would be too much bloat
for maintainer scripts anyways. A far better approach would be to use
Haskell as a script language, but AFAIK this is not really possible
yet.

Regards,

Emilio