From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 03:25:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D2216A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:25:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7CA43D45 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:25:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 05725514E0; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:25:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:25:10 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Donald J. O'Neill" Message-ID: <20050125032510.GA82758@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050125005449.GA41074@xor.obsecurity.org> <200501242120.16504.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200501242120.16504.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Gert Cuykens cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: perl and ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:25:14 -0000 --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:20:16PM -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Monday 24 January 2005 06:54 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:42:24AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > Do we still need perl to make use of ports > > > > > > Just asking because it bugs me. I never use it and it just takes up > > > space and it is a security risc :P I want it gone :) > > > > Only if you want to do certain things like 'make index', but not for > > general use (this has been the case for years). > > > > Kris >=20 > And if you want to install packages using the ports tree. Eh? > depend on installing packages only, ok. Of course, you have to wait for= =20 > them to be built. >=20 > I just ran pkg_info -R perl-5.8.5, too many to count by hand. Well, yeah, but that's because you installed perl 5.8.5 or something that depends on it. If you use 4.x most such ports will be happy with the base system version of perl, and if you don't use 4.x then ports that don't require perl won't install it. Kris --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB9bwWWry0BWjoQKURAvb7AKDXfOS45F3eyH5vTBE5SdMBmmFg8QCggGLw h0yt2QZ8qwL4Zj7hk1sBFNM= =VraA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q--