From: Jordan Geoghegan <jgeoghegan60@gmail.com>
To: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: texlive-collection-basic requires Perl to be removed
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 15:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab931977-3b29-6011-29b3-81265a67217e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ab5dd0f.1c69fb81.abe2d.67ed@mx.google.com>
Hi Steven,
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. I do believe it is also in the base system of
FreeBSD as well.
Cheers,
Jordan Geoghegan
On 03/23/18 22:07, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:53:54, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> The whole point of splitting off perl_base from perl was to eventually
>> make it available as a "Base" package so that it could be relied upon by
>> other parts of the system. I don't remember why I didn't put it into
>> Base at the time, but maybe we should do that now?
>
> my knee-jerk reaction was to be against that, as I do not want to see
> "Base" get
> too large. However it might be a good idea. I just tested every major
> Unix
> distro, and some independent ones. These all come with Perl preinstalled:
>
> - Linux Mint
> - Debian
> - Ubuntu
> - Solus
> - Fedora
> - antiX
> - Arch
> - CentOS (based on Red Hat)
> - PCLinuxOS (based on Mandriva)
> - Puppy
> - Lubuntu
> - KDE neon
> - Xubuntu
> - Gentoo
> - 4MLinux
> - GeckoLinux (based on openSUSE)
> - KaOS
> - Tiny Core (based on Damn Small)
> - NixOS
>
> here are some major and independent distros that do not come with Perl
> preinstalled:
>
> - Slackware
> - FreeBSD
> - NuTyX (based on LFS)
> - Alpine
> - OpenBSD
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-24 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-23 7:39 Steven Penny
2018-03-23 13:00 ` Ken Brown
2018-03-23 16:59 ` Achim Gratz
2018-03-24 5:51 ` Steven Penny
2018-03-24 15:49 ` Jordan Geoghegan [this message]
2018-03-24 16:07 ` Steven Penny
2018-03-24 18:17 ` Jordan Geoghegan
2018-03-24 18:43 ` Steven Penny
2018-03-24 19:13 ` Jordan Geoghegan
2018-03-24 19:33 ` Steven Penny
2018-03-25 0:01 ` Jordan Geoghegan
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