Re: perl

[gram@merece.uthscsa.edu (Gilbert Ramirez)]

> I've a friend who is installing debian and he asked me to ask these questions..
> why does the perl package depend on csh?

You can glob filenames in perl.... 

@filenames = <*>;
print @filenames;


But perl doesn't have the globbing built in. It actually calls csh to do
the magic for it.

> 
> why does 'libc-dev' have a conflicting dependency with 'libc5' ??  It won't
> let him install libc5-dev for some odd reasion.

dunno.

> --
> Todd Fries .. todd@miango.com
> 
> 

--gilbert

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