On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 06:32:55 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote: > It looks like, in order to be useful on a base install, my tool must > be either compiled or bash. Okay. My question is, to what extent > would I be alienating my audience if I used, say, interpreted python > or perl? It seems like perl is required for an awful lot of debian > tools. You can depend on perl, there is no debian without perl. You can recover from a botched libc6, but break your perl installation and you pretty much have to reinstall from scratch. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de
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