texlive-collection-basic requires Perl to be removed

[Jordan Geoghegan]

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
>
>
> -- 
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
> Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
>


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple