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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:55:42PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:

Hi,

> Ports should avoid messing with stuff outside of ${PREFIX} if they can
> help it.  Existing systems will already have a /usr/bin/perl on them
> unless the user goes and removes it.  People writing or executing scripts=
 for
> new systems can easily figure out something is wrong when they get:

Now that I think of it, you are absolutely right, John. Just let's make
a big big banner saying "Perl is no longer in base" so everybody notices
:)

Cheers,
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