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From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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--On Wednesday, January 26, 2005 12:35:32 AM +0100 Gert Cuykens 
<gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote:

> For me freebsd is build as a base that
> can handle everything designed for it. If application need something
> to help it build, it should belong to the base and not to a external
> perl tool.
>
Then it wouldn't hurt for you to know that perl *is* part of the base of 
FreeBSD.  There is *also* a port for it, but it is not necessary to install 
the port.  (I believe this changes in the 5.x series, but I'm not positive 
about that.)

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
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