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[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And that legacy application is actually only using one of those engines and it's to do something completely different and the dev who can explain it retired.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

And every time someone removes any of the unused engines, everything falls apart, even things not in any way connected to it.

So we put the engines back, and swear never to speak of it again, at least until we find time to complete a Perl tutorial.