Re: Feaping Creature-ism in core Debian Packages
>>>>> "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
Dale> Perl may never become a stable language, but even if it does
Dale> in the future, it surely isn't stable right now, and should
Dale> not be incorporated into critical system installation
Dale> processes.
Justify this in terms of the perl-base package please. While I agree
that expecting every .pm from the complete perl package to exist is
unreasonable, relying on the functionality of an essential package
seems fair. What, specifically, doesn't work or do you just not like
the idea of perl installtion scripts in general?
--
Stephen
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