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FreeBSD: Perl to be removed

Posted by Hemos on from the killing-the-perl dept.

zmcgrew writes "From Daemon News:
"The decision was made to remove Perl from the FreeBSD -current base system [earlier story ]. Perl will be supported as a port that the user can install after the base installation, however it will no longer be required. Mark Murray put out a call to the -current mailing list asking for volunteers to port all Perl scripts in the base system to another language, such as sh or C. All critical programs are already being ported, with only a few minor ones left to be claimed." Wow..."

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  1. Re:The obvious question remains by josepha48 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Is is not in most standard unix installations. If you get HP, Sun, or Linux perl is a seperate package. Linux usually installs it on the system as part of the development packages, but it is a seperate package and you can set up a Linux box without it. Sun is the same way, as is HP and AIX.

    I can't remember if I had to install perl for NetBSD, I thought I did, but it may be just the added packages. I know on one NetBSD box I have it has perl installed as a package. I think FreeBSD is doing the right thing. I mean it is not that hard to do 'make install' in the ports to install perl.

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