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0 pointsrcxdude7mo ago0 comments

A substantial fraction of apt is written in perl. It's actually still pretty core to debian, even if applications are using it less.

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julian-klode7mo ago· 1 in thread

There is no Perl code in APT itself, nor in dpkg on the installing side; Perl is used by dpkg-dev, i.e. when building packages.

rcxdudeOP7mo ago

Ah, my apologies. I must admit I am not entirely clear on where the boundaries are between the different tools and other elements of the debian packaging process.

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