Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?

Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by pvaldes on Saturday May 30, 2020 @08:59AM (#23360853)

If you had used Postgresql you may be familiar with psql, createdb, createuser or pg_createcluster. All are perl scripts.

So if you remove Perl, either you renounce also to include Postgresql in your distro, or you would need to rewrite a non trivial amount of scripts in a different language to restore Postgresql support.

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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by dchest on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:05AM (#23360888)

This post is about base system, which doesn’t include postgres. Obviously, if you don’t have Perl in the base, Postgres package could just include Perl as a dependency.

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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by pvaldes on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:31AM (#23361043)

Then it is a different problem. Thanks for the clarification.

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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by tyingq on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:05AM (#23360890)

Is postgres in the base distribution for any BSD or Linux distribution? I'd assume it would just have a dependency on Perl.

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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by anttisalmela on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:01AM (#23361652)

createdb, createuser and pg_createcluster are not part of the PostgreSQL, but part of the postgresql-common packaging for Debian compatible distributions: https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/postgresql-common/-/tree...

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