Is the Perl dependency actually relevant? I've never seen a Linux distro that doesn't install Perl 5 by default, and it's also installed by default on macOS and

Is the Perl dependency actually relevant? I've never seen a Linux distro that doesn't install Perl 5 by default, and it's also installed by default on macOS and OpenBSD. The other BSDs all have Perl in their ports, and you almost always end up installing it anyway due to the sheer amount of stuff that depends on it.