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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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