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I wonder how much of that Perl support is simply regex and other parsing utilities. I’ve notice a lot of that in base OS systems Its a curiosity more than any
by no_wizard 1y ago
I wonder how much of that Perl support is simply regex and other parsing utilities.
I’ve notice a lot of that in base OS systems
Its a curiosity more than anything though
- rcxdude 1y agoA substantial fraction of apt is written in perl. It's actually still pretty core to debian, even if applications are using it less.
- julian-klode 1y agoThere is no Perl code in APT itself, nor in dpkg on the installing side; Perl is used by dpkg-dev, i.e. when building packages.
- rcxdude 1y agoAh, my apologies. I must admit I am not entirely clear on where the boundaries are between the different tools and other elements of the debian packaging process.