Why does Fedpra's perl need systemtap?

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 12/12/2010 07:45 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> Sure, we can't avoid RH's addiction to python, but that's not my point.
>
> It's the impact glueing perl and python together has on upgrades, such 
> as user-upgrade from Fedora N -> Fedora N+1, or python/perl version jumps.
>
> This impact already is visible when upgrading Fedora 13 to Fedora 14.
>
> That's why I am asking
> * Why does perl need systemtap?
> * What does perl use systemtap for?
>
> So far, I haven't seen any answer to these questions.
>
>
It is possible to ask maintainers of systemtap if it's important to have
everything built with enabled systemtap probes. One should say so
after checking their feature page for F-13 [1]. Perl wasn't mentioned
there, because it didn't have this option yet.

In my opinion answer to both your question is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapStaticProbes#Summary

Marcela

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapStaticProbes#Scope

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Marcela Mašláňová
BaseOS team Brno