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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1-BETA: miniinst.iso missing perl5 pkg
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<<On Tue, 13 May 2003 18:15:33 -0600, Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> said:

> The miniinst CD is meant to be the bare minimum to install the system
> for those that are bandwidth-challenged.  It contains *NO* packages at
> all, including perl5.  As many recall, perl5 was removed from the base
> system a year ago and is now solely available as a port/package.

However, perl5 is still a standard part of the system (as witness the
fact that sysinstall looks for it for most of the canned setups); it's
just delivered as a package now rather than a dist.  It should be on
any disc image that has the base system installer bits, or else
sysinstall should learn to do something more sensible when those
particular canned setups are selected (e.g., prompt for additional
media choices).

-GAWollman