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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:55:09 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Perl in the toolchain
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	Hello All,   And no one wanted python ?  I find the necessity for
	extraneous packages silly .  Perl for gods sake .  JimL my .02

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:41:26PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> > Generally, we've been trying to not make perl a prequisite for the kernel
> > build, and I'd like to keep it that way. Except for some arch specific
> That's pretty much out the window when klibc gets merged, so perl will
> indeed be a build requirement for all platforms...
> 	Jeff
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