Carsten Hey <cars...@debian.org> writes: > We are not that far away from being able to implement this plan. One > reason for this is that dpkg's perl scripts were rewritten in C.
> After debootstraping the minbase variant of sid, installing file-rc and > removing insserv, there is not much perl left in the newly created > system. The remaining perl library packages could be removed after > installing debconf-english. Removing Perl requirements from the base system is not the hard part of removing something from essential. The work required to fix package dependencies for the removal of perl-base from the essential set is extensive enough, not to mention unlikely (at least IMO) to be something that enough Debian developers are willing to work on, that I don't think it's worth taking extra precautions just in the unlikely case that it would happen. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zkrph4xf....@windlord.stanford.edu
