On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:22:41 +0200
ZOT  wrote:

> Le 26/09/2019 11:58, Richard Kettlewell a écrit :
> > ZOT  writes:
> >> Le 26/09/2019 11:40, Richard Kettlewell a écrit :
> >>> ZOT  writes:
> >
> > I don’t know what the functional dependency is. If you really want to
> > know then you can inspect their contents.
> >
>
> apache, sendmail and mysql are systems services they should not depend

 No they are applications.

> on a language and certainly not on perl. ( why not basic??)

 Apache is probably built with mod_perl which requires perl, mysql
probably with perl bindings or possibly with perl based utilities. Sendmail
is the only one that surprises me, but probably some of the newer
integrations.

> If they depend on some library tight to perl, those library should not
> be removed but not the system service.
> BTW apt-get removed perl, mysql.. but re-installed php 7.3??

 Apache is probably built with PHP support too.

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