On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:47:51AM +0059, Han Boetes wrote: > Clint M. Sand wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:38:07PM +0100, Han Boetes wrote: > > > I doubt you need perl at all on a box like that. You can also > > > consider to simply remove all the perl on that system. > > > > The pkg_* tools are perl. Even though its a firewall he may need > > to install/remove/maintain pkg's of some sort. > > Ever seen the contents of a package? You don't need perl for > maintaining that. Just a simple script can do the removing and > adding of packages. >
Oh sure, and 200K of perl code say otherwise. I don't think you have a real idea what these tools do these days. There have been lots of small additions and changes. The devil is in the details as they say. Good luck writing correct tools without perl.
