Re: Bug#253621: [ef]grep check
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:34:51AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> Using perl and not /bin/sh in postinst also is bad for performance,
> but we don't warn for that either.
This is off-topic for the bug, but I can't agree here. It takes longer
to start up perl than sh, but when programming in sh you generally have
to fork a lot of subprocesses for facilities that are built into perl. I
find it hard to believe this particular claim.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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