>From my count there are 24 essential binaries, totalling 6550kB of linux-i386 debs.
Perl-base is one of them at 840kB, ~13% of total essential size. I just unpacked all the essential binaries except perl, did "grep perl -r *" and found the following depend on perl debianutils: mkboot dpkg: mksplit dpkg: setup dpkg: install dpkg: update-rc.d dpkg: update-alternatives dpkg: install-info dpkg: dpkg-devert dpkg: dpkg-stateoverride dpkg: cleanup-info util-linux: checkdupexe find . -name "*pm" didnt find anything. (any other test i should have done ?) Would it be a good long term goal to remove perl from Esssential and rewrite these scripts for a posix compliant shell or in c. Im dont know much about perl or these scripts, but im good with c and ok with sh scripts, if i did work on non-perl replacements would they be welcome ? Glenn
