From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 19:45:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3209316A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:45:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB75443D3F for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:45:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j0PJjYGX058115; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:45:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:45:34 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Gert Cuykens Message-ID: <20050125194533.GA35513@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200501242315.12888.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> <200501251530.06424.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> <20050125055301.GB16896@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Paul Schmehl cc: "Donald J. O'Neill" cc: Kris Kennaway cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Warren Subject: Re: perl and ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:45:39 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 25), Gert Cuykens said: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:33:25 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 25, 2005 09:26:07 AM +0100 Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > this is what i dont understand only need perl to compile it ? > > > > > > so some pakeges need perl to compile and some dont ? why not make > > > them all perl independent ? > > > > This shouldn't be too hard to do. All you have to do is contact > > the developers for the 40,000+ different ports and ask them to > > please stop using perl. Once they all comply, the FreeBSD port > > maintainers can eliminate perl. (Course I'll be pissed, because I > > use perl a lot.) > > I will start with the cvsup developer :P Note that cvsup doesn't depend on perl itself; it does default to having a GUI, which pulls in a dependency on the X11 libs, which pulls in imake, which depends on perl. Either installing the imake package via pkg-add, or building the cvsup-without-gui port, will let you install cvsup without perl. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com