On Jo, 08 mar 12, 16:54:09, Stayvoid wrote: > Hello. > > "The presence, for example, of development utilities (a C compiler) or > interpreted languages (such as perl - but see below -, python, tcl...) > may help an attacker compromise the system…" > "So, without Perl and, unless you remake these utilities in shell > script, you will probably not be able to manage any packages (so you > will not be able to upgrade the system, which is not a Good Thing)." > I'm confused. Should I remove it? perl-base is "Essential: Yes", it's probably not worth the effort to remove it. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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