Comment # 2 on bug 983141 from Sebastian Wagner

They have the same version:

> zypper info perl perl-base
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Information for package perl:
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Repository: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
Name: perl
Version: 5.24.0-1.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: out-of-date (version 5.22.1-1.40 installed)
Installed Size: 38.7 MiB
Summary: The Perl interpreter
Description: 
  perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
  Perl is optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting
  information from those text files, and printing reports based on that
  information.  It is also good for many system management tasks. Perl is
  intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, and complete) rather
  than beautiful (tiny, elegant, and minimal).
  Some of the modules available on CPAN can be found in the "perl"
  series.

Information for package perl-base:
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Repository: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
Name: perl-base
Version: 5.24.0-1.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 3.9 MiB
Summary: The Perl interpreter
Description: 
  perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
  Perl is optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting
  information from those text files, and printing reports based on that
  information.  It is also good for many system management tasks.
  Perl is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, and complete)
  rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, and minimal).
  This package contains only some basic modules and the perl binary
  itself.