On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:41:56PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 15:58:46 -0500, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >But it would not be nice to not have the things that would leave with it. > > Generally, it would be a good thing to have Debian base installable > without perl. That way, security-aware administrators would have the > right to choose whether they need $BELL or $WHISTLE that makes perl > appear.
I'd rather that the tools in Debian base were written in a high-level language where available. Take away Perl and you've got only shell, C, and C++ left; I don't think that's going to improve security in practice. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
