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Re: Dropping awk?



On Thu Apr 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM BST, Simon Josefsson wrote:
I noticed that Fedora 42 was released and their docker images lack a
'awk' tool.

They likely lack perl, as well. Most/all awk usage in maintainer scripts could probably be replaced with perl. But, if you are in the minimizing game, perhaps you'd rather remove perl from the essential set? A substantially harder project.

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