Alexander Graf wrote: > On 05.03.16 13:38, Michael Ströder wrote: >> I'd like to completely get rid of perl on my systems. >> Hence my question: >> Is package perl-Bootloader still needed on raspberry pi systems for kernel >> updates or similar? > > I'm not sure you'll be able to rip perl out of the system completely, > even if you uninstall perl-Bootloader. Last time I tried I faced a good > number of dependencies.
On my system perl-Bootloader is the only dependency which needs perl. > I'm currently working on moving us to EFI based images with u-boot. Once > that hits the tree, you would want to have perl-Bootloader (or at least > some code calling grub2-mkconfig) to make sure the grub.cfg is properly > updated. perl is a pretty big dependency just for creating one text file. :-( Ciao, Michael.
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