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Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:27:52 +0000
Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> wrote:

> will remove all the ports first, so it is just back to the basic system.
> But Perl is now a port - should I remove this, or should I leave it alone,
> i.e. is it required for the build process ?

	No, nothing outside the base system is required to build the base
system. But don't nuke the ports before running cvsup :)

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