Re: Depends/Recommends?: Linux image packages going to depend on python
Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> writes:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> Why not keep the main maintainer script to be /bin/sh and use python
>> within optional compoent. I mean:
> In any case C could be used to avoid any other sort of dependency.
Yeah, but doing string manipulation in C is fairly painful and difficult
to maintain in the long run. I suspect that shell, sed, and awk, despite
its disadvantages, would still be easier and clearer than using C for this
sort of transformation. (And all of those tools are already essential and
likely to be present even on most embedded platforms that would use a full
dpkg implementation since they aren't particularly large.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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