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From: Brant Katkansky <brantk@atlas.com>
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Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do!
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> Or we should invent a system (which could be based on the current
> contrib system), where its selectable if you want those tools
> and the utils that *might* depend on them. This solution I could
> live with, and I'm sure many of the other "purists"...

This is what I'd like to see as well.  And, no, I am NOT volunteering. :)

-- Brant Katkansky (brantk@atlas.com)
   Software Engineer, ADC