On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:53:24AM -0800, Erik Hollensbe wrote: >A problem that I have had, and others have had, is that apt-get requires >certain perl modules which must be loaded to handle certain things. Would >it be too much to have these in perl-<version>-base? That way, if install >problems do happen, and /usr/bin/perl gets overwritten with a new version, >then apt will function properly as well.
It's not apt-get which requires perl, but rather debconf. The recent problems experienced with perl-5.6 in unstable are well understood and have a clean fix. There will be no perl-<version>-base. Regards, -- Brendan O'Dea [email protected] Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633
