Fletch writes "According to deadly.org, perl has been upgraded from 5.6.1 to 5.8.0 in openbsd-current. Several other modules in the ports collection were also updated to newer versions." These changes were made after the release of OpenBSD 3.2. To get a version of OpenBSD with Perl 5.8.0 as your stock Perl, upgrade to the CVS version of OpenBSD, or wait a few months for OpenBSD 3.3. Enjoy!
Re:packages are nice
thomasj on 2002-11-15T10:18:08
Well, as with every thing else, there is a reason for that:
The base system is suppose to be a complete system. A system shipping with all nessessary components for a running UNIX system. It is like buying a car. A car comes with tyres and steering wheel, eventhough some people replaces them with low-profile wheels and a sports car steering wheel. So it is with Sendmail/Apache/Named. If you don't like it, install something else, but it comes with the base.
Of course there are good reasons to put it in packages, but what about the rest: I don't like vi, i'd rather install pico, awk is stupid, I want Ruby. I have seen Linux rescue disk without the basic UNIX set, and spend 20 minutes just guessing which editor was there.
Re:packages are nice
mary.poppins on 2002-11-15T11:39:01
The base system is suppose to be a complete system.
Sure, I can imagine a set of applications being labelled "complete system," and distributed on CDs to the public, etc.. But that is not a reason to have those programs exist outside a package system. In fact, having all parts of the system as packages means that you can have different visions of "base system": for instance, a workstation may not need sshd, and I doubt anyone really needs *both* mail servers that are in the NetBSD base system. Another example is name servers: my friend runs djbdns (yes, I know the license sucks) on a NetBSD machine, but has no easy way to uninstall BIND. This is one (maybe the only) place where I feel like Red Hat did something nicer than NetBSD.
(I am talking about NetBSD because that is what I have the most experience with; these arguments apply to the other BSDs as well, I believe. Please straighten me out if I am libelling OpenBSD!)
