On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]> wrote:
> | As is adding a perl dependency to packages that have no previous need > | for perl. > > *shrug*, unless you're talking about embedded systems, which are of > course free to patch their way out of this some other way, most systems > will have perl anyway. You well know that perl-base is Essential: yes > and not taking advantage of the tools we have is silly. It would still be nice if the postinst snippets didn't have to be patched for EmDebian. I imagine this would simply mean checking for perl in the postinst and only performing configuration upgrades when it is available. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
