Bug#757905: Bug#757891: init-system-helpers: Please do not depend on perl

Gerrit Pape pape at dbnbgs.smarden.org
Fri Aug 15 14:05:24 UTC 2014


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:23:17AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:41:50PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Am 12.08.2014 21:15, schrieb Niko Tyni:
> > > The perl-base package is Essential:yes, so inclusion there is pretty
> > > close to a promise of supporting that interface forever inside the
> > > Essential set.  So care must be taken when adding functionality there.
> > > IMO Perl reimplementations of /usr/bin/find, /usr/bin/basename,
> > > /bin/mkdir -p, and /bin/rm -r don't seem very good candidates.
> > 
> > Why not? Can you elaborate?
[...]
> But yeah, I may be making too big a fuss about just a few modules at 150kB.

No, I don't think so.  It's technically very easy to add features and
size to an Essential: yes package every here and then, but very hard -if
not impossible- to remove, just as you said.

So, I very appreciate your thoroughness and wish that all developers 
maintaining essential packages, and those of priority required and 
important, show this sense of responsibility.

Thanks, Gerrit.




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