From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 03:53:21 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 B86C616A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:53:21 +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 4286643D54 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:53:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1DE1351241; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:53:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:53:20 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Gert Cuykens Message-ID: <20050125035319.GA18481@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050125005449.GA41074@xor.obsecurity.org> <200501242120.16504.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> <20050125032510.GA82758@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: "Donald J. O'Neill" 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 03:53:21 -0000 --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:47:41AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:25:10 -0800, Kris Kennaway w= rote: > > 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 > > > > > > And if you want to install packages using the ports tree. > >=20 > > Eh? > >=20 > > > depend on installing packages only, ok. Of course, you have to wait f= or > > > them to be built. > > > > > > I just ran pkg_info -R perl-5.8.5, too many to count by hand. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > Kris > >=20 >=20 > me getting confused :) >=20 > Are there 2 perl thingies ? a base and a other one ? I would like to > have no perl at all and be abel to do make install in the ports tree ? Only in FreeBSD 4.x and older. Kris --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB9cKvWry0BWjoQKURAsmjAJ9ygMFm8YBlmNbEI8LXy6OersXknwCg8XoI fg8rjyJQ0GGQT3AWAozRCkE= =HBLe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM--