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.

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Alan Burlison
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