On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:24:20AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Why are ELF objects so special? Brian Mays and I have asked the Technical Committee for a ruling. It's good form to constrain the scope of that ruling as narrowly as is reasonable. > If we have a rule like this, why should it not apply to other forms of > binaries, or to programs written in interpreted languages? Perl and > python programs can produce ghastly errors if a library they require > is not installed. > > Also, I'd hope that a perl or python program that requires a library > from non-free to work has no more business in main than does a ELF > executable with similar requirements. I completely agree with you. However, perl and python scripts are not at issue before the Technical Committee at present. -- G. Branden Robinson | Yesterday upon the stair, Debian GNU/Linux | I met a man who wasn't there. branden@debian.org | He wasn't there again today, http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | I think he's from the CIA.
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