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 19:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fcfa22b0-cbe2-d4fd-0933-53836a786910@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ab6962b.1368ca0a.688a1.ba50@mx.google.com>
If you tested it in a VM, then you would have seen that Perl is in the
base. I administer dozens of OpenBSD machines for $work. Are you
seriously questioning my intelligence to that degree. or are you just
that obstinate?
I will admit, that it looks as if you were correct in regards to FreeBSD
(I haven't used it in production for years) this is why I said "I do
believe it is also in the base system of FreeBSD" and did not present it
as fact, I merely offered speculation vis a vis FreeBSD. Regardless,
you are patently incorrect in regards to OpenBSD. I have done over 100
installs/upgrades of OpenBSD in the past several months and can confirm,
that every time I have installed OpenBSD, Perl has been in the base system.
How do I know this? I run some custom in house Perl programs/scripts
that I wrote myself and deploy them on nearly every machine I run. The
Perl scripts run from a default install and they do not invoke pkg_add
as I am a zealot who likes to run only the base system where possible.
I don't understand why you are refuting my statement so vehemently...
this is easy to fact check. Go spin up an OBSD VM and try running a
basic perl script on a text file. You will see it works.
Also, by install file sets, I also meant install media, don't be
pedantic. Go do some research/testing before you reply again.
Thanks for the "illumination",
Jordan Geoghegan
On 03/24/18 11:17, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:07:10, Jordan Geoghegan wrote:
>> I am writing this from an OpenBSD machine. I can indeed confirm that
>> Perl is in the base sytem.
>
> thanks for the email. however i think we may have a pot-kettle
> situation here,
> so allow me to illuminate you. just because you are on an OpenBSD
> machine, and
> you have Perl, doesnt mean that Perl is in the base system. You could
> have
> installed OpenBSD long ago, which didnt have Perl in Base, then
> installed Perl
> at some point, giving you the illusion that Perl is in the Base
> system. The only
> way to know for sure, would be to do a clean OS install, or to load a
> live
> version in a virtual machine, as I did. Since you didnt specify, I
> have to
> assume you did neither.
>
>> Those pages you reference don't show every program in the base system
>
> Right.
>
>> they merely show the install file sets.
>
> Wrong. The FreeBSD page contains virtual hard disk files (.vhd), and
> the OpenBSD
> page contains virtual optical disk files (.iso).
>
>> You obviously have little experience with *BSD, please don't trumpet
>> misinformation if you don't know what you're talking about.
>
> I would say the same to you. good day.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-24 18:43 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
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 [this message]
2018-03-24 19:33 ` Steven Penny
2018-03-25 0:01 ` Jordan Geoghegan
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