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Date:      Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:24:00 -0400
From:      Warren Pollans <warren@meyer-pollans.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: perl5.8 with 4.10 stable?
Message-ID:  <20040729112400.6783da6e@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20040729145449.GD28698@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <20040728145201.42b9a463@localhost.localdomain> <00ff01c474e7$bbb86db0$0a01a8c0@kv> <20040729014927.V40687@woozle.rinet.ru> <20040729100133.09e6ae14@localhost.localdomain> <20040729145449.GD28698@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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thank you - that's what I needed to know - I am a bit of a neatness freak but I'll try to exercise some restraint :-)

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:54:49 +0100
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> [perl 5.003.05 as bundled with 4.x systems]
> 
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:01:33AM -0400, Warren Pollans wrote:
> > Thanks, do I also need to deinstall the old version?
> 
> Not unless you're a neatness freak.  Having the old version around is
> pretty harmless usually.  Leave it lying about on the disk, or delete
> it -- makes little difference.  Nb. don't delete /usr/bin/perl as
> that's now a symlink to the ports version of perl you will have
> installed.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                       26 The Paddocks
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> 



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