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From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
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[ For future reference, there is way too much cross posting here. ]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Paul Seniura aka UDSD387 wrote:
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> Of course one other way of 'fixing' this has come to mind:
> Have FreeBSD install perl-5.8.x as its 'system' instead of 5.6.x.  ;)

There is no more "system" perl in FreeBSD. You can install whatever
version you want on your 5.x system. This is how it should be.

Doug

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