[OmniOS-discuss] perl : only for pkg tools?

[Mayuresh Kathe]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 02:52:00PM -0400, Eric Sproul wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh at kathe.in> wrote:
> > hi, is perl included in the base distribution only
> > for supporting pkg tools?
> 
> Most of the pkg toolkit is in Python, but:
> 
> pkg search -r 'depend::runtime/perl'
> 
> shows that quite a few things in upstream illumos do require perl.

great, that means, perl is here to stay... :)