Why does Fedpra's perl need systemtap?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/13/2010 10:33 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
> 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

The answers are not there. But I guess, I better should keep my face 
shut, because wanting to discuss this kind of RH decisions so far has 
always proven to be a waste of time and an unpleasant experience.