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Subject: Re: texlive-collection-basic requires Perl to be removed
To: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
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From: Jordan Geoghegan <jgeoghegan60@gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:07:10 -0700
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I am writing this from an OpenBSD machine. I can indeed confirm that 
Perl is in the base sytem. Those pages you reference don't show every 
program in the base system, they merely show the install file sets. You 
obviously have little experience with *BSD, please don't trumpet 
misinformation if you don't know what you're talking about.

Cheers,

Jordan Geoghegan


On 03/24/18 08:49, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 08:33:58, Jordan Geoghegan wrote:
>> OpenBSD does indeed come with perl, as its package managegment 
>> system, "pkg_add" is written pretty much entirely in perl. Perl is a 
>> first class citizens over at OpenBSD.
>
> Using this, no it doesnt:
>
> http://fastly.cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/amd64
>
>> I do believe it is also in the base system of FreeBSD as well.
>
> Using this, not it doesnt:
>
> http://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/11.1-RELEASE/amd64
>
> Also see this:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2002-May/000823.html
>
> Cheers
>
>
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