Re: perl-base

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,
>>"Juan" == Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> writes:

Juan> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Jim Pick
Juan> wrote:

Juan> But `perl' isn't essential.  It isn't even required.  Its
Juan> priority is just `important' (at least version 5.004.02-1).

	Umm, perl-base (to be issued with the next upgrade of Perl)
 shall be essential. Perl, as a package, won't be; it would just add
 libraries to the perl-base package.

	/usr/bin/perl shall thus belong to an essential package.


	manoj

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