[MPlayer-dev-eng] More On Automatic Codec Downloader

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 11:28:31PM +0100, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Son, 2002-03-10 um 23.15 schrieb daniel carter:
> 
> > Allot of people would have it installed already, but i'd guess a fair 
> > portion wouldn't.  I always remove perl when doing a custom install.
> 
> I'm certainly no Perl fan but this sounds pretty bogus: No nowadays
> linux distribution will work correctly without perl neither would MacOS
> X. It's one of the few things one can rely on on Linux systems. 

this is blatently wrong. slackware or any homebrew system will work
fine without perl. debian has ridiculous degrees of perl dependency,
yes, but that doesn't mean everyone does. then there's *bsd as well...

the only problem i've ever encountered with not having perl is that
some stupid packages (either openssl or openssh iirc) have perl
dependencies in their build processes -- they use a huge perl script
to put the configured paths into the man pages when a one-line sed
script would do the exact same thing -- but something to the effect of
"ln -sf /bin/true stupid_fixpaths_script" typically eliminates the
problem.

rich