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From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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Folks,

Why is perl v4 in the standard FreeBSD release, current and stable
releases? Why can't it be 5.00404 by default? Many packages require perl 5
to work, so why not make 5.00404 the default...

Regards,

d.

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| Dean Hollister,           | dean@mushka.ml.org        |
| Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au      |
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