On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:36:26PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > > Well POSIX.so and POSIX.pm are provided by perl-5.005-base, adduser does > > need it in order to be internationzalized. I've written the patch ... > > Is it really that hard to rewrite adduser in C? Can someone enlighten me as > to why doing that will not be feasible?
Of course it's not hard to do. But personally I don't like to duplicate functionality and besides it increases our workload with yet another program we have to maintain. > boot-floppies should have as little dependencies as possible. i don't think > we should move anything (even small parts of perl-base) onto it....
