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Assuming Python or Perl are installed by default in any server is an invite to a world of pain. At least that's my anecdotal experience.

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I've seen instances of some Unix systems not having Perl installed, but that's very rare. Basically everything directly or indirectly depends on Perl, so you really have to run your scripts on a minimal install of RHEL of FreeBSD with 0 ports in order to get into such a situation.

And for that situation you can always break out http://p3rl.org/App::staticperl.

Plus of course if you want to use (pure perl) cpan dependencies I wrote http://p3rl.org/App::FatPacker and http://p3rl.org/Object::Remote to make that easier.

> And for that situation you can always break out http://p3rl.org/App::staticperl.

Why do you link to p3rl.org? And, more importantly, why do you link to something that doesn't exist?

Many container base images won't have perl by default (e.g: alpine).

For servers it's less common, but enterprise systems never cease to amuse me.

Most container base images are often so barebone you can't really count on them containing anything. For instance, on an Alpine image you can't count on bash.

Why?

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