From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 01:02:15 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 ED91016A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:02:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BC543D2D for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:02:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gert.cuykens@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id f1so39129rne for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:02:15 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=QOcSobRJ9eluKLxIDfMOe4GRvchzddE5d57zct8QFO0PzTq/KCpaKtCtjmk+qcLENb+fpxYNrmmmiUzXKftMC80REnMk+KD6FMnzkVH+zyP9yOTbwlUtGR4jagfocwEKb38kNYODusK1yEuALZlJ1XvarqHg/Qw2cN8uoqjGW3w= Received: by 10.38.81.67 with SMTP id e67mr131197rnb; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:02:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.74.6 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:02:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:02:13 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20050125005449.GA41074@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050125005449.GA41074@xor.obsecurity.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl and ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gert Cuykens List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:02:16 -0000 On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:54:50 -0800, 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). So i can go in the port directory of perl and do make deinstall and freebsd still works right, no kernel panic or something :)