From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 04:12:13 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 F0D0316A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 04:12:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B3643D3F for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 04:12:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gert.cuykens@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id c16so86270rne for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:12:13 -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=ITxQpeQIwZNImiPbulRZ0qZtsDwZpbe1oCvRXtu52vx+t4bgGfhl0o7NTjluyQMXpBw5Ieoy5PwftJBX420cHyLVAnB7h/F4EiTIoLFsAdjIKiLh3F2HL1HUCzd4e0ZZYdOrkSO3qnfYYpZMXsu4GNoMcICa20NulNSJALhyG8I= Received: by 10.39.1.23 with SMTP id d23mr262929rni; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:12:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.74.6 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:12:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:12:12 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20050125035319.GA18481@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050125005449.GA41074@xor.obsecurity.org> <200501242120.16504.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> <20050125032510.GA82758@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050125035319.GA18481@xor.obsecurity.org> cc: "Donald J. O'Neill" 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 04:12:14 -0000 On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:53:20 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:47:41AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:25:10 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > Eh? > > > > > > > depend on installing packages only, ok. Of course, you have to wait for > > > > them to be built. > > > > > > > > I just ran pkg_info -R perl-5.8.5, too many to count by hand. > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > Kris > > > > > > > me getting confused :) > > > > 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 > So if i want to completly wipe out perl where in my freebsd 5.3 ports tree do i do "make deinstall" ?