On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 10:17:12PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
They likely lack perl, as well. Most/all awk usage in maintainer scripts could probably be replaced with perl. But, if you are in the minimizing game, perhaps you'd rather remove perl from the essential set? A substantially harder project.
If the goal is a minimal container image, why use debian at all vs a distribution optimized for that purpose? Running alpine without perl is already a solved problem...
