* Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> [250419 15:47]:
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 10:17:12PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
They likely lack perl, as well. Most/all awk usage in maintainer
scripts could probably be replaced with perl. But, if you are in the
minimizing game, perhaps you'd rather remove perl from the essential
set? A substantially harder project.
If the goal is a minimal container image, why use debian at all vs a
distribution optimized for that purpose? Running alpine without perl
is already a solved problem...
This is true for a lot of things Debian is used for. As an example:
GNOME desktop users could also use Fedora, and the work of
maintaining GNOME in Debian would be saved.
People like to use Debian for a lot of different reasons. Very large
and very small installs are "just" usecases too. When there are enough
people interested (and so on...) in it, it will happen.
Chris
