On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> 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


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