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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