Bug#644701: libfile-which-perl: package description

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:46:16 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:

> The only shell I know of with a "which" builtin is zsh, but if that's
> missing Perl would be perfectly capable of using /usr/bin/which
> (provided by the Essential package debianutils).
[..]
> So it's a safety-net to ensure the availability of a command that on
> Debian is guaranteed to be available anyway?  

No, AIUI it's the possibility to get a which-like functionality from
within perl without having to call external tools.


Cheers,
gregor
 
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