On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:26:23 -0400 Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> It was done in August for rawhide/f8, mainly because nothing
> required it, and it is easy to add for new installs later.
I seem to remember it was required for Perl's globbing operator.
AFAIK, that dependency disappeared over 7 years ago, with the
introduction of Perl 5.6.0 (March 2000).
-- Steven