Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat...
by tosh on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:35AM
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context: the start of the thread is about the base system
> I was wondering if I need the package manager in the minimal installation of the system as I only use built-in deamons (httpd, sshd) and UNIX utilities (vi, sed)? By package manager I mean pkg_* executables as well as its dependencies (most notably Perl). (The size of /usr/libdata/perl5 is about 50MB on my machine). I just want the minimal installation without any unnecessary
scripting language.
> Looking at FreeBSD for a moment it seems like Perl left the base system in May 2002 (18 years ago)
> I was wondering if I need the package manager in the minimal installation of the system as I only use built-in deamons (httpd, sshd) and UNIX utilities (vi, sed)? By package manager I mean pkg_* executables as well as its dependencies (most notably Perl). (The size of /usr/libdata/perl5 is about 50MB on my machine). I just want the minimal installation without any unnecessary scripting language.
> Looking at FreeBSD for a moment it seems like Perl left the base system in May 2002 (18 years ago)
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