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From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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--On Tuesday, January 25, 2005 09:26:07 AM +0100 Gert Cuykens 
<gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote:
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> this is what i dont understand only need perl to compile it ?
>
> so some pakeges need perl to compile and some dont ? why not make them
> all perl independent ?

This shouldn't be too hard to do.  All you have to do is contact the 
developers for the 40,000+ different ports and ask them to please stop 
using perl.  Once they all comply, the FreeBSD port maintainers can 
eliminate perl.  (Course I'll be pissed, because I use perl a lot.)

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
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