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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3]: Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:35:53 -0800
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Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> I consider this a step up from code with an implicit dependency on a CPAN 
> library.
> 

There is no CPAN library in use.  Math::BigInt is a standard part of
Perl, and the canned values is there only to support extremely old
versions of Perl, or weird system configurations, as a
belt-and-suspenders measure.

	-hpa