Re: 2.4: System Tools - I like them

[Colin Walters <walters debian org>]

On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 11:41, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> Any system on which you can compile GNOME has Perl.
> 
> $ head -n 1 /usr/bin/automake
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $ head -n 1 /usr/bin/autoconf
> #! /usr/bin/perl
> $ head -n 1 /usr/bin/aclocal
> #!/usr/bin/perl

All those tools are for developers though; the whole idea behind the GNU
autotools is that you can compile distributed software with only /bin/sh
and POSIX make (and you obviously don't need Perl to run the compiled
software).

I personally don't think GST using Perl is a showstopper though.