Re: minimal "zero conf" build dockerfiles for fedora:latest and alpine:latest

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 1/13/21 5:09 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
>> I don't like Perl really, but there's a chicken-and-egg problem between
>> detecting Python and using it to print the configure help script.  For
>> configure-time tasks, Perl has the advantage that "#! /usr/bin/env perl"
>> just works.
> 
> Assuming perl is actually installed, the world seems to shift to python.
> On a minimal fedora install python is present but perl is not ...
> 
> On the other hand git depends on perl, so it is probably pretty hard to
> find a developer workstation without perl installed, so maybe that
> doesn't matter much for the time being.
> 
> take care,
>    Gerd
> 

I agree that it doesn't matter much right now, Though I don't always 
have git installed in containers when I am doing builds. It will become 
more common to encounter environments that are missing "obvious" 
dependencies.

This was just an "FYI" experiment. :)

--js