Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

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Vadim Plessky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Loooks like - yes, Perl is still needed by some packages. At least, I was not 
> able to clean up it from my installation completely, but succeded with some 
> minor perl-related packages.
> 
> Perl is scripting language, right? And old-fashioned, not easy to use...

hum, this is at least nonsense. I could start being mean, beware!

> I believe it can be replaced by JavaScript, especially taking into 
> consideration that it is now has ECMA standard (ECMA script)

do you know any JavaScript interpreter? i don't know any (except including in
browsers)
and JavaScript is no good for text processing

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> > But perl is needed by base packages

/usr/bin/perl with no whistles is needed. Not very big (package perl-base)