siberia-man has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am wondering why is Data::Dumper not installed on some latest systems such as RHEL, CentOS? It's standard module, though. Perl is 5.16.

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Re: Missing Data::Dumper module
by haukex (Archbishop) on Sep 10, 2019 at 03:20 UTC
    I am wondering why is Data::Dumper not installed on some latest systems such as RHEL, CentOS?

    AFAIK on those OSes the Perl core modules are not installed by default and you need to install the perl-core package to get them. hippo writes:

    RedHat doesn't bundle all the perl core into a single RPM because it would mean changing the entire bundle every time one of the constituent modules is upgraded and that would not be very efficient. Since one person's "critical" is another person's "waste of valuable space" the choice of which bits of core to install is up to the user. If you want all of core installed right from the off just install the cleverly-named perl-core RPM which is a meta package and pulls in all the core modules as dependencies.
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      Thank you for your effort. Nevertheless it is not 100% clear why some modules are included (for example Getopt::Long) whereas this one is not.
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