On 2004-01-31, Nicos Gollan penned: > --Signature=_Sat__31_Jan_2004_15_02_55_+0100_Q8IxOoqnGREZXD.J > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 06:32:55 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It looks like, in order to be useful on a base install, my tool must >> be either compiled or bash. Okay. My question is, to what extent >> would I be alienating my audience if I used, say, interpreted python >> or perl? It seems like perl is required for an awful lot of debian >> tools. > > You can depend on perl, there is no debian without perl. You can > recover from a botched libc6, but break your perl installation and you > pretty much have to reinstall from scratch.
Ugh. That's ... scary. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
