"Theodore S. Kapela" says:
> If every popular "package" were to be bundled with the OS, the distribution
> would approach 1 gigabyte (and continue to grow beyond).

I'll repeat, however, my gentle plea that Perl is an exception. As
I've noted, its much easier to build system configuration
tools/package tools in Perl, and unless the language is bundled it
isn't possible to assume that your target has it.

Perry