Brian Gupta wrote: > I was asking to understand if there was a deliberate purpose to > keeping it in on. (Is it considered core?) > > I ask because if it is part of ON deliberately, I can make my packages > dependent on perl. If it simply done for convenience and belongs > elsewhere, I could not rely on it. (I made the decision already not to > rely on perl.)
It is in the miniroot so people can use it for JumpStart scripts. Several system utilities (/bin/kstat, the proj* tools, the interrupt daemon thing) are written in perl. -- Alan Burlison --
