On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:07:52PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:59:36PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > >Did the policy on no perl in RPM pre/post install scripts change? > > > > What policy? > > The "no perl" policy. We certainly used to have one. Part of the problem is > that perl is *huge* and causes dependancy loops. Another part is that the > perl syntax varies by release [until we get perl6]. That means a perl scriptlet > might get run by something quite different. > > > That may be so, but it is impossible to install a modern Red Hat > > OS without installing perl. Since perl is guaranteed to be > > Nope. I do it for all my firewalls. rpm -e perl is the highlight of the > install experience ;) The let's rewrite rpm in perl, will be easier to debug, we can then swap the spec syntax by perl's ones, and someone else takes care of the portability problem, plus this will annoy Yum and up2date maintainers to no end ... /me ducks and run ... Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
