On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:31:34PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > >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.
Horrid. > I just unpacked all the essential binaries except perl, did "grep perl > -r *" and found the following depend on perl > [snip] > > (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. YES. Perl should NOT be required. It's an interpreter. For scripts. > 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 ? It probably depends on the package maintainer, but I myself am excited about anything that removes a dependency without introducing significant problems.
