Darren J Moffat writes:
> James Carlson wrote:
> > I disagree.  The burden placed on the overall system due to the use of
> > Perl (or any other implementation choice) _is_ an architectural issue.
> 
> Given that Perl is part of the minimal install image there doesn't seem 
> to be a problem here.

Another perfectly valid way to look at this is that Perl is _forced_
to be part of the minimum install image _because_ it's used for
important system components.

That's still architectural.

> Now adding Python or other language runtime of choice into the minimal 
> install image would be architectural, but Perl is already there.

Yes, those would have essentially the same sort of impact.  As far as
I know, there's no explicit policy or precedent here.

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