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Subject: Perl 5.6 vs Perl 5.8 (install)
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I have FreeBSD-CURRENT installed and it places Perl-5.6 on the system.
It's not clear to me whether it's safe to pkg_delete this in favor of
Perl-5.8 (which I want to install).   I tried searching the list archive
and didn't find anything (yet).

Anyone accomplish this?