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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by pwdisswordfish2 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:42AM (#23361128)
OpenSSL/LibreSSL still requires Perl to compile.

Normally I do not have Perl installed, to conserve space.

NetBSD thankfully has always done without a large scripting language, only recently have they included Lua. I wonder how long it would take to rewrite the OpenSSL perl scripts in lua.

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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by clort on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:47AM (#23361561)
> recently

10 years ago

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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by pwdisswordfish2 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @06:21PM (#23365314)
First 17 years without a scripting language.
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