* Philipp Kern [2010-12-29 05:38 +0000]: > On 2010-12-28, Carsten Hey <cars...@debian.org> wrote: > > ... One reason for this is that dpkg's perl scripts were rewritten > > in C. > > I know you phrased it differently but wasn't the motivation for this > rewrite to be more robust in the base system on upgrades? I.e. do not > rely on Perl and thus avoid adding more contraints on how the base > upgrade must be performed to keep dpkg working properly.
I don't know what the main motivation was, although making upgrades more robust seems to be a possible and a good one. http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap says: | Make dpkg.deb contain only sh and C programs (to help embedded | distros, to make it possible to remove perl-base from essential) Regards Carsten -- 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/20101231005641.ga6...@furrball.stateful.de
