On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:51:18PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >Brendan O'Dea wrote: >> Specifially I would like to drop the following modules from perl-base: >> >> POSIX
>IIRC, debconf uses quite a bit of POSIX. Let's see.. >Well, less than I thought. I use it for locale stuff (setlocale), that >wacky ceil thing (which I could easily rewrite to use int instead, I'm sure), >and some temp file things. I'd be glad to use a different temp file >generator, if I could find one that let me specify an extention (this is >required). Drats. OK, well an alternative which occured to me was that I could make a small POSIX::Base (or something) XS module for -base which provided setlocale, LC_MESSAGES, tmpnam and whatever else was required. An alternative for tmpnam would also be to call tempfile(1). Regards, -- Brendan O'Dea [email protected] Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633
