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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: perl5.6.1 wrapper 
References: <20021107014750.GA18398@rot13.obsecurity.org> 
In-Reply-To: <20021107014750.GA18398@rot13.obsecurity.org> ; from Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>  "Wed, 06 Nov 2002 17:47:51 PST."
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 08:58:44 +0000
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
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IMVHO, the perl wrapper should be removed altogether, and the
perl port's "use.port" symlink-creating feature should be used
instead.

M

> Can someone explain why the perl wrapper needs to be hardlinked to
> perl5.6.1?
> 
> The problem I am seeing is this:
> 
> USE_PERL5=yes in a port adds the following BUILD_DEPENDS:
> 
> enigma# make -V BUILD_DEPENDS
> perl5.6.1:/usr/ports/lang/perl5
> 
> However 5.0 has perl5.6.1 in the base system still, so this dependency
> is always satisfied, the perl port is never added and the port build
> that relies on it will fail.
> 
> Kris
> 
> 
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