Re: 2.4: System Tools - I like them

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On 31 May 2003, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> From: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
> Subject: Re: 2.4: System Tools - I like them
> 
> On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 16:34, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Murray Cumming Comneon com">
> > 
> > > One thought:
> > > The backends are written in perl. Does this add any new or difficult
> > > dependency to GNOME?
> > 
> > No, not really. They're written in perl because any *nix system worth its
> > salt has perl already.
> 
> 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

None of which you need when compiling from tarballs which is what most
people who will compile gnome theirselves will do.

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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