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McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

Posted Aug 16, 2012 10:44 UTC (Thu) by juliank (subscriber, #45896)
In reply to: McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux? by intgr
Parent article: McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

So, perhaps a rewrite in C or Perl, and we're done.


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McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

Posted Aug 16, 2012 12:50 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I could see that being worthwhile if an install of Debian didn't already pull in support for the language it was written in, but is it really feasible to make a Python-less system these days?

McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

Posted Aug 16, 2012 13:24 UTC (Thu) by juliank (subscriber, #45896) [Link]

I guess we should run this script at build-time, and most of the build tools are written in Perl, and a standard Debian chroot for build servers does not have Python installed. Rewriting it in Perl as a debhelper tool would be useful.

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