On Thu, 3 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > > > It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested one > > > yet. > > > I doubt there is one. > > > > I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines die > > of an heart-attack whenever an installation task has to occur... > > Bollocks. Profile running perl sometime. Then profile running dpkg.
profile dpkg 1.9.x, please. Don't do it with 1.8. I only say this, because 1.9 includes several fixes, gotten from profiling data.
