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Elliot Lee sopwith at redhat.com
Fri Sep 3 18:34:40 UTC 2004


On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> The perl code present now, replaces some very ugly sed code which 
> used temporary files.  I see no compelling technical reason to 
> not use perl.

It's big and causes dependency loops, and it doesn't sound necessary in
this case. ('perl -pi' uses temporary files too, it just hides them.)

The script does look a little nicer with perl, but pretty isn't enough. :\

FWIW,
-- Elliot
The daring is in the doing

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