Guillem Jover, on Wed 06 Jan 2016 03:25:27 +0100, wrote: > $ apt-cache show perl-base|grep Essential > Essential: yes > $ apt-cache show perl|grep Essential > Build-Essential: yes Ah, I was wondering. I knew that perl was not essential, but didn't know perl was build-essential. Anyway, it's pointless to discuss this further. Samuel