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> My opinion is that DES is right anyway.  This lowers the consistency of
> the ports tree overall,

Not really--many other ports do the same thing.

> and it makes it harder to do global statistics
> etc.  For each single issue this is not a big deal; however, overall it
> IS, and to get overall consistency we need to make consistent choices in
> each single case.
>
> At least 99% of the people that still run 4.6 and want to run firefox
> will already have REINPLACE installed.  The argument for "less
> dependencies" is thus for an extreme minority case, and it is IMO not
> one we should take particular care for anyway.  We *want* people to
> upgrade, so the net avoids exposure to old versions etc.

Installing REINPLACE_CMD is not going to improve anyone's security.

> My advice: Just accept the use of perl as a mistake, fix it, and move
> on.

It's a requirement for building the program.  There's nothing wrong with
also using it to edit a few files.  If someone (you?) have ideas about
removing the Perl dependency, that would be a really stunning enhancement
to the port.  As I said it's been a huge bugbear.
-- 
Trevor Johnson