Comment by teruakohatu

2 hours ago

> There is a set of languages which are essentially required to be available on any viable system. At present, these are probably C, C++, Perl, Python, Java, and Bash

Java, really? I don’t think Java has been essential for a long time.

Is Perl still critical?

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SSLy  2 hours ago

It's extremely hard to build any unixly userspace without perl dependencies.

  • bmicraft  37 minutes ago

    I really do wonder who (as in "which packages") still depends on perl. Surely it can't be that many?

    Edit:

    On my (Arch) system removing perl requires removing: auto{conf,make}, git, llvm, glibmm, among others.