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From:
Leon Timmermans
Date:
May 28, 2013 11:57
Subject:
Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> Interesting. I was not aware of that. As I'd said elsewhere, I was aware
> that FreeBSD *at one point* had removed it, but I wasn't sure if that had
> ever been in a release.

AFAIK CentOS ships only half of core when you install the "perl"
package. You have to install another package to get the rest (I think
"perl-libs"). This is generally considered stupid.

> How widespread is CentOS in low end hosting providers?

Very.

> And does the deployed version typically lag in the way that we know and
> love for the commercial users of the CentOS upstream distribution?
> (ie many people are still using RHEL with 5.8.8)

I know it happens, I have no idea how much.

Leon

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