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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Re: mergemaster broken? 
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On 05 Jun 2002 15:01:24 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> > Looks like this is going to be necessary after each
> > buildworld, then.  :-/
> 
> No.  Mergemaster should not use Perl, and the fact that it does is a
> bug.

That's probably an overstatement.  Perl used to be in the base
system, and was, at the time an easy way to stat() a file.  I'd say
mergemaster's use of perl is "use of an obsoleted interface" at worst.
:-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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