Re: Dropping awk?
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 10:17:12PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
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.
If the goal is a minimal container image, why use debian at all vs a
distribution optimized for that purpose? Running alpine without perl is
already a solved problem...
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