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Date:      Thu, 13 May 2004 23:50:14 -0400
From:      Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Perl 5.6 vs Perl 5.8 (install)
Message-ID:  <40A441F6.30708@forrie.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040514034757.GA36571@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <40A43E07.1020808@forrie.com> <20040514034757.GA36571@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Thanks Kris.  Does the basic installation of 5.6 have any dependency 
modules?  I hear there is a way with CPAN to port those over to a new 
perl installation.



Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:33:27PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
>  
>
>>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?
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, this is safe.  You just have to reinstall any perl modules that
>were built against perl 5.6, since they will stop working when you
>remove perl 5.6.
>
>Kris
>  
>



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