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		fanf2 38 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hard Rust requirements from May onward Before apt, the main user interface for dpkg was dselect, which was written in C++

einpoklum 38 days ago [–]

But doesn't this actually strengthen my point? Debian transitioned from a tool written in a more demanding language to a tool written in a less-demanding one.

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