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Monday, 1 September 2008

Do you use shedrat?

If so, you may want to roll your own perl:
http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379791
http://use.perl.org/~nicholas/journal/37274

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