Re^3: blaming perl for not using a build policy

[syphilis]

I don't think it's off the wall to assume that what's good enough for my distribution's purposes is good enough for mine

Except that my take on this is that, whereas "bash" is being provided primarily for *you* to use, "perl" is there primarily because the system needs it.

And you *are* quite free to "assume that what's good enough for my distribution's purposes is good enough for mine". It's your right to complain about the fact that your assumption is in error that I'm not so sure about :-)

Why use the system's libc?

I don't know ... probably for convenience ... which presumably is the same reason that you'd use the system's perl. But, having accepted the system's libc, I don't think you can then go and complain about it (unless it has been jiggered with in a way that contravenes the license under which it is distributed). Same goes for the system's perl.

Cheers,
Rob

[kyle]

"bash" is being provided primarily for *you* to use, "perl" is there primarily because the system needs it.

Certainly there are a lot of users who will use bash but never use Perl. Likewise there are a lot of users who will use Firefox and never use bash. I don't think it's right to say one of them is "for the system" and the other isn't.

Are we saying that Perl is used so infrequently by system owners that its suitability for general use isn't important?

It's your right to complain about the fact that your assumption is in error that I'm not so sure about :-)

Reminds me of a Dilbert comic I can't find (but did find quoted a few places).

Dilbert: ...and people who don't bother to vote have no right to complain.
Dogbert: Why not?
Dilbert: Why not? It's obvious. No vote means no right to complain. You can't get much more logical than that. Besides, that's how I was raised.
Dogbert: You were raised by bumper stickers?

My own wise-ass remark is that complaining about the results of a particular perl build is well within the license, so it must be unreasonable to complain about those complaints.

[Zen]

Not voting is a way of voting, IMHO.

[kyle]

Not voting is a way of voting, IMHO.

I don't see how. Voting is a way of influencing something. How does not voting do that? What does not voting do...at all?