[Gllug] just a quick question

[Dani Pardo]

Tethys wrote:
> Ian Northeast writes:
> 
> 
>>Perl has been a standard component of AIX for about 7 years and, IIRC, 
>>of Solaris for about the same (I don't have any old Solaris 
>>installations, it's certainly there in 9). I'd be very surprised if it 
>>hasn't been in HP/UX for a similar time.
> 
> 
> It depends on how you define "standard". It's not in the core build of
> Solaris, and although it's in one of the optional extra package sets,
> no one in their right mind would do a full install on a production box.

   Depending of what the server is going to do, Perl might be a must.
   A server without Perl is like a Solaris machine with sh. When I 
install a new Solaris machine, the first thing I do is install bash. 
Again, If the machine is only to run a buch of iptables rules, I can 
live without perl/gcc/wathever.

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Dani Pardo, dani at enplater.com
Enplater S.A
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