Re: perl necessary for debootstrap, why?
On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 21:54:16 +0200, RhineDevil
<tanyadegurechaff@disroot.org> wrote:
>I've looked up /usr/share/debootstrap/functions and I've seen some perl code
>Can I know why perl is a requirement if pkgdetails.c is not found?
>What does this code do exactly and why wasn't it translated to shell?
As far as I remember, the perl code is used to resolve the package
dependencies for the stage 1 install where no Debian-specific thing
other than debootstrap is expected to be present.
Writing it in shell would probably be way slower.
Greetings
Marc
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