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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by teruakohatu on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:38AM (#46215463)
> 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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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by SSLy on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:51AM (#46215541)
It's extremely hard to build any unixly userspace without perl dependencies.
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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by bmicraft on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @05:05AM (#46216015)
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.

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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by SSLy on Saturday December 13, 2025 @05:59PM (#46259074)
excuse the late reply, but check what requires perl as a makedep
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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by FieryMechanic on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @04:21AM (#46215737)
From my experience of building LFS it appears to be needed to built as part of the tool chain.

https://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter07/...

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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by johnny22 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @04:36AM (#46215823)
critical at build time, not runtime
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