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[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:59:36 -0400 (EDT), Mike A. Harris wrote:

> >Did the policy on no perl in RPM pre/post install scripts change?

> 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.

"sed -i" is one reason, albeit impossible with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 2.x or Red Hat Linux <= 8.0

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