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Re: java library installation issues

* Per Bothner 

| Egon Willighagen <egonw@subdimension.com> writes:
| 
| > I like the idea of a Perl launcher...
| 
| I hate the idea of requiring Perl in order to run Java ...
| 
| Of course Debian can use whatever wrappers it will, but no Java
| application *I* manage will require Perl to run.

Debian already has perl-base at priority required, essential yes and
section base, so for us it won't make much of a difference.   Though I
too detest the idea of having to use a perl wrapper.  Let's start a
program which takes a while to start anyway through another
not-too-fast language..

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Tollef Fog Heen
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